Question follow-through · 477
Post Offices
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support high street post office counter services.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 17 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 23 Jul 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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- Small Businesses: Exports · 27 Nov 2024
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Votes on this topic
- Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots · 15 Jul 2026
- Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 · 15 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
17 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support high street post office counter services.
22 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jul 2024
Answer published
The Post Office is an essential service in communities across the country. The Government is committed to finding ways to strengthen the Post Office, through consulting with sub-postmasters, trade unions and customers. This will include supporting the dev...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Department for Business and Trade: Disclosure of Information
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Cars: Spare Parts
30 Aug 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether there is an embargo on spare parts for foreign cars.
Government Bills: Impact Assessments
14 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent guidance his Department has provided on when Departments should publish a regulatory impact assessment when bringing forward a Bill to Parliament.
Conditions of Employment
26 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Employment Rights Bill on the ability of employers to contact a (a) full-time and (b) part-time employee outside of their (i) normal and (ii
Small Businesses: Exports
27 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much funding her Department has provided to help support small and medium-sized enterprises to export in each of the last 15 years; and how much funding his Department has made available for this p
Trade Union Recognition
17 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what information (a) his Department, (b) the Certification Officer and (c) the Central Arbitration Committee hold on (i) successful and (ii) unsuccessful trade union recognition ballots in each of the
Trade Union Recognition
17 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of (a) lowering the required member percentage from 10% to 2% for the statutory trade union recognition ballot process, (b) removing the
Trade Union Recognition
18 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether (a) his Department and (b) the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service issue guidance on exemptions to trade union recognition.
Construction: Mental Health Services
8 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to ensure the availability of positive mental health initiatives including (a) on-site mental health resources, (b) training for employers in mental health first aid and (c) helpl
Fair Work Agency: Public Appointments
13 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to include appointments to the Fair Work Agency in the Public Bodies Order in Council; and whether the chair appointment will be classified as a significant appointment.
Trade Agreements
11 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has undertaken an evaluation of the effectiveness of the Trade Commissioners programme since it was established.
Department for Business and Trade: Staff
11 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many officials in (a) his Department and (b) predecessors to his Department have worked in roles relating to international trade in each of the last 27 years.