Stop the state owned Royal Bank of Scotland from closing high-street banks.

The British Government owns the majority of shares in RBS. The proposed closure of high-street banks across the country will harm local businesses and many people in our communities who are unable to use internet banking. Parliament should stop these bank closures on behalf of British citizens.

The decision to close branches is a commercial and operational decision for a bank, and not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

You may be interested to know that the House of Commons debated the general issue of bank branch closures in June 2016. You can read the debate here: https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-06-30/debates/A32A8165-29DE-4FE1-A93F-E88310B81E5C/BankBranchClosures

You can find out more about the recent announcements about branch closures and the banking industry's response in this House of Commons Library briefing paper:

https://researchbriefings.intranet.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/SN00385

The Scottish Affairs Committee asked RBS about its branch closures. You can find out more here:

http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/scottish-affairs-committee/news-parliament-2017/rbs-bank-closures-evidence-17-19/

You could start a new petition asking the House of Commons to debate the issue of local bank branch closures again, if that's what you want to happen.