Question follow-through · 14565
Post Offices: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support (a) Liskeard and (b) other rural communities to maintain access to (i) banking and (ii) other essential services after the closure of local post offices.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 15 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 19 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 25 Nov 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support (a) Liskeard and (b) other rural communities to maintain access to (i) banking and (ii) other essential services after the closure of local post offices.
19 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Government provides an annual £50m Network Subsidy funding to support the delivery of a minimum number of branches, including Liskeard and other rural & urban communities and to provide a geographical spread of branches in line with published acce...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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