Edition 10 - MPs Invited to Payment Choice Alliance Event

A Payment Choice Alliance Newsletter

Every MP has been Invited to a Payment Choice Alliance Event - Please Email your MP Now!

Great News! Neil Duncan-Jordan MP has agreed to be the sponsor of a Payment Choice Alliance MP ‘drop-in’ event at the Westminster Parliament on 12th February. The venue is the Terrace Dining Room and EVERY MP has been invited! What we would like all you PCA supporters to do is to email YOUR own MPS to urge them to attend this important session.

You may well know the name of your local MP, even if you don’t, you can find out their name and contact details by using this link. We suggest you send an email along these lines, with your address included to prove you are a constituent:-

Dear (MP’s Name)

Good morning, I hope you are well.

I am one of your constituents and a keen user of cash, I support the Payment Choice Alliance, an organisation working to ensure every member of the British public has a legal right to use their cash to pay, when and where they choose.

The Payment Choice Alliance is holding a Drop In event for MPs at Westminster on 12 February, between 12:30 and 16:00 in Terrace Dining Room B.

I know you have been invited to this event and urge you to attend. By doing so, you will ensure that you are fully informed about all the issues impacting cash in the UK.

If you have not already done so, please confirm your attendance to Sarah Nelson at the Payment Choice Alliance sarah.j.nelson@paymentchoicealliance.org.

Thank you in advance for supporting my right to use cash!

Kind regards

(your name, followed by your address)

Please copy Sarah in on your email to your MP. With YOUR support, this can be a great event, which will help our push to deliver Payment Choice for all!

We will give a full report on our 12th February event in our next Newsletter.

The Treasury Committee will Issue their Report and Recommendations on Cash Acceptance in Mid February

As you may well remember, our Chair Ron Delnevo appeared before the Treasury Committee last month.

Every aspect of cash was discussed and it came over strongly just how important cash is to so many millions of British citizens - and to the fabric of British society.

So many things that the British public hold dear - choice; national and personal security; privacy; inclusion; freedom; and democracy itself - depend to a greater or lessor extent on there being a continuing option to choose to use cash.

All of the MPs on the Committee seemed to be strong supporters of cash and payment choice. Since December, the Payment Choice Alliance has been supplying the Treasury Committee with more information that demonstrates just how vital it is that a Payment Choice Act is passed in the UK in 2025.

The Committee reports in February 2025. Let’s hope their report strongly points the British Government towards introducing legislation to guarantee cash acceptance this year!

Another European Neighbour brings in a Law to compel Businesses to Accept Cash!

The Netherlands has joined Belgium, Denmark, France, Norway and Spain by passing legislation compelling businesses to accept cash!

The law goes to the upper house of the Netherlands Parliament for ratification in early February 2025.

Meantime, the Swedish Centrals Bank - The Riksbank - has announced that legislation should be introduced to safeguard the future use of cash. With Ireland also bringing in some measures on cash acceptance, the picture is now complete. All of the UK’s neighbours have taken some action to ensure the public’s cash is accepted! As we know from our survey through YouGov in 2023, 71% of British adults want a law passed giving them the unfettered right to use their cash, when and where they choose. The UK is an outlier on Payments Choice - and the British Government must recognise that NOW!

Payment Choice legislation MUST be passed in 2025!

Please Tell Your Friends About The Payment Choice Alliance

The PCA needs all the active supporters we can get! So please tell your friends about YOUR support for the Payment Choice Alliance - and urge them to visit our website to register THEIR support!

THANK YOU.

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About Us

The Payment Choice Alliance, founded in 2014 and relaunched in 2023, is a campaigning organisation committed to ensuring the right of the British public to use cash is safeguarded by the passing of a Payment Choice Act.

The Act would give everyone in the UK the right to use their cash, when and where they choose.

The Payment Choice Alliance, which is run by committed volunteers, is also focused on ensuring every community in the UK has convenient cash withdrawal and deposit facilities. The provision of such facilities, along with the legal obligation of businesses to accept cash, will ensure cash remains a viable Payment Choice for the British public for as long as they want to use it.