Question follow-through · 6696
Post Offices: Closures
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the impact of Post Office closures on elderly and digitally excluded residents in rural communities.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 3 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 11 Jun 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
3 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the impact of Post Office closures on elderly and digitally excluded residents in rural communities.
8 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Jun 2026
Answer published
My Department conducted social value research into the most frequent users of the Post Office to feed into the Green Paper on the Future of the Post Office, which we published last year. This research showed that the most frequent users are typically olde...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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