Funding for Credit Unions

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance – in the Senedd at 2:19 pm on 16 May 2018.

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Photo of David Melding David Melding Conservative 2:19, 16 May 2018

Can I just add our support to efforts to increase the capacity of credit unions? At the moment, according to the Money Charity, we spend £139 million per day on repayments and personal debt. It's absolutely incredible. And credit unions are a key part, I think, certainly for people in limited financial circumstances, but more generally as well, potentially. So, it's organisations like Dragonsavers in RCT that need to have their role expanded, and, you know, we can look at many countries—the United States and, much closer to us, the Republic of Ireland—that have a much more extensive financial services sector that embraces credit unions.