Kwasi recently paid a visit to Barclays Bank on Staines High Street, where he met and chatted to staff working at the cash desk, and others handling loans and mortgages for a wide range of customers, and during a longer meeting, talked to the Branch Manager and Head of Corporate Affairs for London and the South about the status of their business and banking locally.
Kwasi said: "Keeping in contact with banks and bank managers in your constituency is one way to keep tabs on the shape of the local economy because they have relations with lots of residents and local businesses."
"The staff at Barclays in Staines were very friendly and professional, and I learned a lot; it was particularly encouraging to hear about new local businesses starting up in recent months, since we have, as everybody knows, been through a recession and are still experiencing economic slowdown."