Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:31 pm on 6 December 2016.
One of the things we’ve done, of course, is to ensure that funding is available to post offices, particularly in rural areas, so that they can ensure that the services currently provided by banks are maintained by them—for example, paying in cheques, withdrawing money, and so on. But, what I would tell the banks is that it’s very important to ensure that, where businesses do use the banks at the moment in order to cash their takings, those resources should be available in future to allow them to do that, be that in a post office or through some alternative method that is convenient for those businesses.