Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 29 Oct 2019
Leaving the EU: Workers’ Rights
"(Urgent question): To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy if she will make a statement on the Government’s plans for workers’ rights after the UK leaves the EU...."Laura Pidcock - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 29 Oct 2019
Leaving the EU: Workers’ Rights
"Thank you for granting this urgent question, Mr Speaker. I persisted.
The leaked memos reported in the Financial Times over the weekend are both worrying and, at the same time, utterly predictable. They shine a light on the true politics of this Conservative Government and how they are seeking to …..."Laura Pidcock - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Oct 2019
Oral Answers to Questions
"Wow! What an answer. This is the situation for workers at Amazon: their bones are being broken; they are being knocked unconscious; and they are being taken away in ambulances. Where is the urgency to step in and stop what is happening to these workers? Are the Government going to …..."Laura Pidcock - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 16 Jul 2019
Oral Answers to Questions
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 16 Jul 2019
Oral Answers to Questions
"Given the reported use of food banks by staff in the Secretary of State’s Department, and given that the first ever indefinite strike action of outsourced workers in Whitehall is happening now, does the Secretary of State not see it as his duty at least to ensure that BEIS contractors …..."Laura Pidcock - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Jul 2019
Whistleblowing
"What an interesting debate this has been. I, too, would like to congratulate all those brave people who have come forward as whistleblowers. There has been so much agreement in this Chamber and that is not just because there are so few of us here; it is because this is …..."Laura Pidcock - View Speech
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 04 Jun 2019
Trade Union Access to Workplaces
"I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Warrington South (Faisal Rashid) on securing this debate, on introducing his ten-minute rule Bill, and on bringing trade union issues to the House of Commons. With some exceptions, it is only Labour Members who press these issues continuously and bring the worker’s …..."Laura Pidcock - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 30 Apr 2019
Oral Answers to Questions
"There are many warm words from the Government on workers’ rights, but to say that the Conservatives are the party of workers is a joke, because their actions in government tell a different story. Strong economies are almost always underpinned by strong trade union rights. Germany, Sweden, Norway and Denmark …..."Laura Pidcock - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Mar 2019
Oral Answers to Questions
"A couple of weeks ago, Labour colleagues and I crossed the road to Parliament Square to talk to outsourced Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy workers from the Public and Commercial Services Union and the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain, who were demanding equal terms and conditions with …..."Laura Pidcock - View Speech
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Written Question
Wednesday 13th March 2019
Asked by:
Laura Pidcock (Labour - North West Durham)
Question
to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many post office branches have been relocated into retail premises in (a) North West Durham, (b) North East England and (c) the UK since 2010.
Answered by Kelly Tolhurst
The Government values and recognises the important role that the Post Office plays in North West Durham and other communities across the North East and the UK. This is why we committed in our 2017 Manifesto to safeguard the Post Office network and protect existing rural services. This strategy, backed by Government investment of over £2 billion since 2010, has delivered a branch network that is at its most stable and accessible in decades, with over 11,500 branches.
The Post Office reports annually on the size and shape of the network; the most recent report can be found at http://corporate.postoffice.co.uk/modernising-post-office. The report shows the number of branches in the network so that the change can be seen year on
year.
The information requested is set out below. The vast majority of the Post Office network is operated on an agency/franchise basis with branches located in retail premises. The figures show the number of Directly Managed Branches operated by the Post Office and the number of Agency branches.
Number of open post offices in 2010 | Directly Managed Branches | Agency branches | Total branches |
North West Durham Constituency | 1 | 29 | 30 |
North East Government Office Region | 10 | 481 | 491 |
UK | 373 | 11532 | 11905 |
Number of open post offices in 2018 | Directly Managed Branches | Agency branches | Total branches |
North West Durham Constituency | 1 | 29 | 30 |
North East Government Office Region | 6 | 484 | 490 |
UK | 262 | 11285 | 11547 |
Source: Post Office Limited