§ Mr. Granvilleasked the Postmaster-General if he is aware that people in Suffolk, desirous of placing money in the Post Office Savings Bank, have often to walk several miles to post offices outside their own villages in order to do so, owing to the fact that their own post offices have not the facilities for this; and whether he will take steps to enable all sub-post offices to deal with Post Office savings accounts.
Mr. GrimstonOf the 24,000 post offices in the United Kingdom some 18,500 transact savings bank work, an increase of 1,000 since the beginning of the war. My right hon. Friend is prepared to consider sympathetically the extension of these facilities wherever there is a demand for them and a reasonable case can be made out. I am not aware of any outstanding applications in Suffolk, but if the hon. Member has any particular cases in mind, I will gladly look into them.