Question follow-through · 5075
Post Offices: South Suffolk
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help ensure that post offices in South Suffolk constituency remain financially viable businesses entities.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 10 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 8 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 8 Oct 2024 · 28 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help ensure that post offices in South Suffolk constituency remain financially viable businesses entities.
8 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Oct 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
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