Question follow-through · 19893
Post Offices: Bank Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of enhancing the banking offer within Post Offices.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 12 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 19 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of enhancing the banking offer within Post Offices.
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2024
Answer published
Post Office continues to provide vital banking services through the Banking Framework to communities and businesses alike and protect access to cash for those who choose to use it. Government understands the importance of face-to-face banking to communiti...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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