Question follow-through · 14169
Post Offices: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what notice the Post Office plans to give of closure of branches; and what plans he has to to mitigate the potential impact of such closures on rural communities.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 13 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 25 Nov 2024 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what notice the Post Office plans to give of closure of branches; and what plans he has to to mitigate the potential impact of such closures on rural communities.
18 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Nov 2024
Answer published
No decisions to close any or all of the remaining Directly Managed Branches in rural and urban areas have been taken as of yet. Given the difficult financial position the Post Office is in, it is right that it reviews the costs of its operations and consi...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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