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1726412

registered interest
date	30/08/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Post Offices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department is taking steps to help support the Post Office to (a) recruit postmasters and (b) maintain existing post offices.
tabling member constituency	Mid Cheshire
tabling member printed	Andrew Cooper
uin	3533
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2024 answer text <p>While Government recognises the important role postmasters play in our communities and for small businesses across the UK, issues surrounding staffing are an operational matter for the Post Office.</p><p> </p><p>Government protects the branch network by setting minimum access criteria, and protects services by setting minimum services to be provided at post offices across the country. The Post Office network meets the access criteria at a national level.</p> answering member constituency Harrow West answering member printed Gareth Thomas question first answered 10/09/2024 11:29:02 answering member 177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas
tabling member	5195

1721762

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Post Offices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support high street post office counter services.
tabling member constituency	Basildon and Billericay
tabling member printed	Mr Richard Holden
uin	477
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2024 answer text <p>The Post Office is an essential service in communities across the country. The Government is committed to finding ways to strengthen the Post Office, through consulting with sub-postmasters, trade unions and customers. This will include supporting the development of new products, services and business models that will help reinvigorate the high street.</p> answering member constituency Harrow West answering member printed Gareth Thomas question first answered 23/07/2024 14:58:28 answering member 177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas
tabling member	4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden

1674554

registered interest
date	01/12/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Post Offices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many sub post offices there were in each year since 2012.
tabling member constituency	East Londonderry
tabling member printed	Mr Gregory Campbell
uin	4800
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2023 answer text <p>The table below shows the number of post office branches open since 2012. Government requires Post Office to maintain a network of at least 11,500 branches, and to fulfil access criteria, which ensures that 99% of the population lives within 3 miles of a Post Office. 2020-2021 was the only period in the last ten years where the number of branches fell below the Government-set 11,500 minimum, due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. During this period Government granted a waiver which permitted the Post Office to have fewer than 11,500 open branches. The numbers of post office branches for 2022/23 have not yet been published.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total number of Post office branches</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012 - 2013</p></td><td><p>11780</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013 - 2014</p></td><td><p>11696</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014 - 2015</p></td><td><p>11634</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015 - 2016</p></td><td><p>11643</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016 - 2017</p></td><td><p>11659</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017 - 2018</p></td><td><p>11547</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018 - 2019</p></td><td><p>11638</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019 - 2020</p></td><td><p>11638</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020 - 2021</p></td><td><p>11415</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021 - 2022</p></td><td><p>11635</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 06/12/2023 17:43:55 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	1409 label Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell

1659966

registered interest
date	12/09/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Post Offices
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to increase the number of services and facilities that can be accessed from Post Offices.
tabling member printed	Lord Weir of Ballyholme
uin	HL10076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/09/2023 answer text <p>While publicly owned, Post Office operates at arm’s length from Government as a commercial business with its own Board. Government protects access to a range of key services, but Post Office has commercial freedom to adapt its services to meet the needs of its diverse customer base. Post Office continues to work with both the private and public sectors to identify new opportunities to deliver different services through its network.</p><p> </p> answering member printed The Earl of Minto question first answered 26/09/2023 14:22:53 answering member 4952 label Biography information for The Earl of Minto
tabling member	4970 label Biography information for Lord Weir of Ballyholme

1657881

registered interest
date	04/09/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Post Offices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what plans she has for the future of the Crown Post Office estate.
tabling member constituency	Stockport
tabling member printed	Navendu Mishra
uin	197616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2023 answer text <p>Government sets the parameters for Post Office to operate in and asks its management to be responsible for running the company day-to-day. Post Office therefore has the freedom to make commercial decisions regarding the composition of its network, providing it fulfils the Government-set access criteria, which ensure that, for example, 99% of the UK population lives within three miles of a post office.</p><p> </p><p>Post Office CEO, Nick Read, has been clear that it’s the business’ ambition to operate the network on a fully franchised basis in time. Directly Managed Branches (also known as Crown branches) represent around 1% of the Post Office network.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 12/09/2023 07:19:30 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4811 label Biography information for Navendu Mishra

1652857

registered interest
date	13/07/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Post Offices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment she has made of implications for her policies of the Post Office Ltd policy to reclassify some main post office branches as Local Plus; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	South West Devon
tabling member printed	Sir Gary Streeter
uin	193834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2023 answer text <p>While publicly owned, the Post Office operates at arm’s length from Government. Government sets the high-level parameters for the Post Office, but it is the Post Office Chief Executive, together with the Board of Directors, who are responsible for running Post Office day-to-day and the company has the commercial freedom to deliver the branch network within the parameters set by Government.</p><p> </p><p>Government continues to protect the branch network by setting minimum access criteria, and protects services by setting minimum services to be provided at post offices across the country. Decisions about individual branches are made by Post Office Limited.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 18/07/2023 16:35:56 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	234 label Biography information for Sir Gary Streeter

1653060

registered interest
date	13/07/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Post Offices
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to promote awareness of the value of post offices.
tabling member printed	Lord Framlingham
uin	HL9320
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2023 answer text <p>Government is clear that the Post Office should be a valuable social and economic asset for communities and businesses for years to come. The Post Office delivers essential services that are hugely valuable, to both individuals and SME businesses, across the UK. The Minister for Postal Affairs continues to champion the Post Office across Government and to external stakeholders where appropriate, however, Post Office Limited is a commercial business and it is right for the company to lead on promoting post offices and raising awareness of the value they deliver.</p> answering member printed The Earl of Minto question first answered 27/07/2023 11:24:08 answering member 4952 label Biography information for The Earl of Minto
tabling member	134 label Biography information for Lord Framlingham

1611937

registered interest
date	18/04/2023
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Post Offices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions she has had with (a) Post Office Ltd and (b) Royal Mail on the potential impact of the withdrawal of Mailwork contracts on the viability of post offices.
tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
tabling member printed	James Wild
uin	181480
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/04/2023 answer text <p>Government is aware of concerns around the impact removing Mailworks could have on individual post office branches and understands Post Office Limited has raised these concerns directly with Royal Mail.</p><p>Mailworks contracts are commercial matters for both companies and Government has no involvement in these matters. There would be a six-month notice period if Royal Mail were to decide to remove a Mailworks contract. Post Office would continue to work closely with an affected postmaster if notice were given.</p><p>The Government-set Access Criteria ensures that 99% of the population will continue to live within three miles of a post office.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 21/04/2023 15:11:14 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild

1545874

registered interest
date	28/11/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Post Offices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps the Government is taking to help post offices maintain their role within local communities.
tabling member constituency	North Ayrshire and Arran
tabling member printed	Patricia Gibson
uin	97542
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/12/2022 answer text <p>The Government has provided over £2.5 billion in funding to support the Post Office network over the past 10 years and is further providing £335 million for the Post Office over the next three years.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, the Government protects the Post Office network by setting minimum access criteria to ensure that 99% of the UK population lives within three miles of a Post Office.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 01/12/2022 17:13:40 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	4435 label Biography information for Patricia Gibson

1519449

registered interest
date	10/10/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Post Offices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the viability of the Post Office Network.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	60006
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/10/2022 answer text <p>Since 2011/12, the Government has provided over £2.5 billion in funding to support the Post Office network and is providing a further £335 million for the Post Office over the next three years. Since 2019 the annual network subsidy, which helps to ensure the viability of rural and community branches, has been maintained at £50 million a year and will remain at the same level until 2025.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Dean Russell question first answered 17/10/2022 10:09:56 answering member 4812 label Biography information for Dean Russell
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden