Question follow-through · 84541
Post Offices: Banking Hubs
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of opening Post Office branches within Banking Hubs.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 22 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 31 Oct 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of opening Post Office branches within Banking Hubs.
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Oct 2025
Answer published
Thousands of Post Offices already provide the same everyday banking services, such as cash withdrawals and deposits, that are available at Banking Hubs. In its published response to the Government’s Post Office Green Paper, Post Office recently set out ho...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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