Clause 203
Banking Bill
6:45 pm
Stewart Hosie (Spokesperson (Economy; Home Affairs; Treasury; Women); Dundee East, Scottish National Party)
In terms of the social benefits, I am sure that the Minister knows and everybody in the Committee knows—they have simply forgotten—that it is not just the banks that use Scottish notes, but all the financial institutions as well. The modest commercial advantage that they may have had helped to increase the number of free-to-use automatic teller machines, which were filled with notes from the Scottish banks. That kind of social benefit is included, and that came from the modest advantage that the Scottish banks got.