Question follow-through · 101945

Post Offices: Mid Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the answer of 15 October 2025 to written question 79794, if he will make an estimate of the proportion of residents in Mid Bedfordshire constituency who live within one mile of a post offic

answeredDepartment for Business and Trade

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Answering body
Department for Business and Trade
Tabled
2 Jan 2026
Target answer date
6 Jan 2026
Answer
7 Jan 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the answer of 15 October 2025 to written question 79794, if he will make an estimate of the proportion of residents in Mid Bedfordshire constituency who live within one mile of a post offic

  2. 6 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 7 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    Post Office’s performance against the Government’s Access Criteria is assessed at a national level rather than by individual constituencies. Information on how the Post Office measures network performance against these criteria is published annually in it...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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