On 3 May 2011 the APPG on Debt and Personal Finance and the All Party Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency Group held a joint meeting on “Tackling Fuel Debt. Continue reading APPG on Debt and Personal Finance seminar on fuel debt →

On 10 March 2011 the APPG on Debt and Personal Finance and the APPG on Legal Aid held a joint meeting to discuss the impact of legal aid reform on funding for debt advice. Yvonne Fovargue MP chaired the meeting. Welcoming the MPs, peers, advice and financial sector representatives who attended the meeting, she pointed out that the advice sector is facing “a perfect storm” of rising demand and local and national funding cuts. Continue reading Seminar on Legal Aid reform and debt advice funding →

On 16 December 2010 the Group held a breakfast seminar meeting on how ‘the consumer’s voice’ will be affected by the Government’s proposals for ‘a better model for the consumer landscape’. Continue reading Consumer landscape breakfast seminar →

On 13 July 2010 a breakfast meeting was held on the subject of basic bank accounts. Chaired by the Group’s Secretary, Yvonne Fovargue MP, and attended by over twenty parliamentarians, invited panelists were asked to respond to a new report from Citizens Advice on the lack of provision of basic bank accounts to undischarged bankrupts: Continue reading Basic bank accounts breakfast seminar →