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North
Ayrshire MSP Allan Wilson Responds Quickly to Offers by The RBS And HBOS.
The Three Towns, the Garnock Valley and Arran are good
cases for their deployment.
Local MSP Allan Wilson is
seeking to extend the coverage of free-to use ATM cash machines to include
every community in North Ayrshire.
The move follows an announcement by the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) that it
is to install 300 such machines in some of the UK's poorest locations and
more remote rural areas. Halifax and Bank of Scotland (HBOS) followed that
announcement with plans of their own for 100 new machines where no such ATMs
were currently sited.
MSP Allan Wilson has responded quickly to the offers by the RBS and HBOS to
400 free to use cash machines by suggesting his constituency could host one
or more such machines.
“RBS has invited members of Parliament to nominate areas where they think
the new cash machines should be located and I immediately thought of The
Three Towns, the Garnock Valley and Arran as good cases for their
deployment” said Mr Wilson.
“As a frequent visitor to Arran I am aware that in parts of the island
securing quick and easy access to your own cash from an ATM can be costly
particularly if you are elderly or infirm or don’t have access to transport.
Equally there are very rural parts of the Garnock Valley such as Gateside,
Barrmill and Burnside for example where additional machines might be
deployed locally to the advantage of my constituents ” said Mr Wilson
"Ardrossan lost its last bank when the Clydesdale moved out several years
ago and constituents there as well as in other towns in this area could also
benefit from the extension of such a basic service into residential areas
outside the town centre".
“I would be pleased to hear from constituents in this situation and I will
use their examples to press the case for Cunninghame North to be included in
this exercise and hopefully secure more ‘free-to-use’ ATMs for this area”
said Mr Wilson.
Mr Wilson, Deputy Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning in the
Scottish Executive can be contacted by:
Writing to him at his office at 55 Hamilton Street Saltcoats KA21 5DX
Telephoning 01294 605040
or e-mailing him at
awilson2@btconnect.com or
Allan.Wilson.msp@scottish.parliament
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