§ Mr. Peter BradleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list for each constituency in Shropshire the post office branches, indicating those which serve rural communities, which(a) closed and (b) opened (i) between 1979 to 1997 and (b) since May 1997. [118539]
§ Mr. Alan JohnsonI understand from the Post Office that as of October 1999, the numbers of post offices in each of the four parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire were as follows:
Post Offices Numbers Shropshire North 44 Shrewsbury and Atcham 42 Ludlow 45 The Wrekin 25 The Post Office does not hold historical data by constituency for the numbers of post offices which have closed or opened, nor do they hold details by constituency of rural post offices.