Which? is also holding a meeting at the House of Commons with the Conservative MP Andrea Leadsom and representatives of all the major high street banks, where they will put the case for portable account numbers.
The organisation argues that if regulation of the banking sector followed a similar model to the telecommunications industry, where it is commonplace for people to keep their phone numbers when they change networks, people would make the change in bank accounts as frequently as they do their mobile providers.
This appears to be backed by the survey that found 76% of people believed that the introduction of portable account numbers would make the process of changing banks easier.