There is no data on how widely cash is accepted which puts the UK at risk of becoming cashless, a report warns.

Businesses like shops and restaurants may soon need to be forced to accept coins and banknotes, MPs have warned, as fewer and ...

Taxi app giant Uber said trials showed some people preferred paying in cash or did not have a bank card.

The growing number of businesses and other places refusing to accept cash as payment could result in the country ...

Report says half of people have recently been somewhere that didn't accept cash but warns the trend is damaging those who ...

Shops and services may have to be forced to accept cash in the future to help protect vulnerable people who rely on it, MPs have said. A Treasury Committee report into cash acceptance stopped ...

Concerns have been raised about the potential emergence of a "two-tier society" as cash usage dwindles in UK businesses. A Treasury committee was informed that groups such as the elderly ...

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