UK bank branch closures hit 6,000 with 33 parts of England now having 'none'

More than 6,000 UK bank branches have gone in nine years of "disastrous" closures, according to new figures. Thirty-three constituencies, including two in London, will not have a single bank branch by the end of the year, says Which?.

Eight more Barclays branches are due to close on Friday, taking the total to 6,005 since 2015, when Which? began counting. Barclays is the bank accused of closing the most branches: its decommissioned outlets are said to make up about 20% (1,216) of the total.

There have already been 200 closures scheduled for the rest of 2024, including 50 from NatWest, 43 from Lloyds, 28 from TSB, 26 from Halifax, 20 from Royal Bank of Scotland and 14 from Barclays. Sam Richardson, deputy editor of Which? Money, said that while some people may hardly notice the closure of their local branch, “for others reliant on face-to-face services, the impact can be disastrous”.

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In response to being named the individual bank that had shut the most branches, Barclays said: “As visits to branches continue to fall, we need to adapt to provide the best service for all our customers. Where levels of demand don’t support a branch, we maintain an in-person presence though our Barclays Local network, live in over 350 locations, based in libraries, town halls, mobile vans and our banking pods.”

Constituencies expected to have no bank branches by the end of the year

• Barnsley East (estimated population: 94,000)

• Bolton West (98,000)

• Bradford South (106,000)

• Bury South (103,000)

• Central Suffolk and North Ipswich (102,000)

• Chatham and Aylesford (103,000)

• Clwyd South (70,000)

• Colne Valley (112,000)

• Dagenham and Rainham (117,000)

• Denton and Reddish (88,000)

• Don Valley (99,000)

• East Worthing and Shoreham (99,000)

• Erith and Thamesmead (117,000)

• Glasgow North East (88,000)

• Liverpool, West Derby (94,000)

• Mid Bedfordshire (121,000)

• Mid Derbyshire (83,000)

• Newport East (84,000)

• North East Derbyshire (92,000)

• Nottingham East (98,000)

• Penistone and Stocksbridge (89,000)

• Plymouth Moor View (94,000)

• Reading West (112,000)

• Rhondda (68,000)

• Sedgefield (85,000)

• Sheffield Hallam (85,000)

• St Helens North (100,000)

• Stone (86,000)

• Swansea East (81,000)

• Warrington North (95,000)

• Wentworth and Dearne (100,000)

• Wirral West (68,000)

• York Outer (92,000)