Question follow-through · 3533
Post Offices
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department is taking steps to help support the Post Office to (a) recruit postmasters and (b) maintain existing post offices.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 30 Aug 2024
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 10 Sept 2024 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Aug 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department is taking steps to help support the Post Office to (a) recruit postmasters and (b) maintain existing post offices.
3 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Sept 2024
Answer published
While Government recognises the important role postmasters play in our communities and for small businesses across the UK, issues surrounding staffing are an operational matter for the Post Office. Government protects the branch network by setting minimum...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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