Post Offices: Closures

(asked on 19th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

What assessment he has made of the effect of recent post office closures on high street footfall.


Answered by
Kelly Tolhurst Portrait
Kelly Tolhurst
This question was answered on 19th March 2019

The Government recognise and value the importance that post offices play in communities across the UK and we remain committed to the Post Office network’s future.

There is no programme of Post Office closures and the network has been as its most stable for decades thanks to Government investment of over £2 billion since 2010.

The Post Office have in fact opened 350 branches through their New Network Location programme since April 2017.

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