Question follow-through · 118654
Post Offices: Motor Vehicles
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that communities relying on a mobile post office service continue to have provision when vehicles are undergoing repair or maintenance.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 6 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 10 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 12 Mar 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that communities relying on a mobile post office service continue to have provision when vehicles are undergoing repair or maintenance.
10 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Government sets the overall access criteria for the Post Office network, but day‑to‑day operational matters – including the deployment and management of mobile post office services – are the responsibility of the Post Office. Where mobile units are te...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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