To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what recent estimate she has made of the proportion of households in (a) Cleethorpes constituency and (b) Great Grimsby constituency that have bank accounts. (279271)

I have been asked to reply.

The Family Resources Survey data for 2006-07, published in June this year, show that the number of adults without access to a bank account fell from 2.8 million in 2002-03 to 2.1 million in 2006-07. The survey data do not provide figures by constituency. However they show that around 91 per cent. of households in the Yorkshire and Humberside region are ‘banked’.