Question follow-through · 37273
Post Offices: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to help protect Post Office services in rural areas.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 11 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 19 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to help protect Post Office services in rural areas.
13 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Mar 2025
Answer published
We recognise the key role Post Offices play in their communities, and branches in some rural areas are particularly important as the Post Office often acts as a community hub. We are listening carefully to stakeholders to ensure the whole network, includi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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