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Savings Accounts (Interest Rate)

Volume 496: debated on Friday 29 February 1952

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asked the Assistant Postmaster-General if he will increase the interest rate on Post Office savings accounts in a similar manner to the recently announced increased bank rate.

No. Money deposited in the Post Office Savings Bank is virtually on call and a higher rate of interest is not justified. The rate has remained unchanged at 2½ per cent. since 1861.