Euro Bank Accounts (Hansard, 23 January 2002)

HC Deb 23 January 2002 vol 378 cc909-10W 910W

§ Mr. Gordon Prentice
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the number of euro accounts opened in the United Kingdom banks; and what percentage this is of the total. [29271]

§ Ruth Kelly
The latest quarterly review by the Association for Payment Clearing Systems (APACS) identified that there were about 135,000 euro bank accounts and approximately 6 per cent, of UK businesses have opened one.