Anti-Cash Organisations CANNOT Be Allowed To Issue UK Cash Usage Data!

This article in The Guardian was going quite well until near the end, when the journalist decided to rely on UK Finance for figures on cash use!

NOT the right thing to do!

Instead, how about asking the British Retail Consortium?

After all, retailers tend to know how people pay in shops!

According to the British Retail Consortium Payment Survey Report 2025 (covering the 2024 calendar year), cash was used for 19.2% of all retail transactions.

That compares to the 9% figure reported by UK Finance.

There must be a reason for the difference - but that doesn’t matter.

What DOES matter is that the Alliance has on several occasions told the Financial Conduct Authority to get a grip on the reporting of cash use and, specifically, to stop organisations with anti-cash vested interests publishing their own cash use figures.

Figures which then get reported by journalists because it is easy to find them on the internet.

The Financial Conduct Authority needs to take responsibility for producing cash usage figures.

NOW.

IN 2026.

Source: theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/feb/10/my-week-of-only-using-cash-could-a-return-to-notes-and-coins-change-my-life