§ Brian CotterTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many post offices closed in the last financial year ending 31 March, broken down by(a) whether rural and urban and (b) constituency. [53066]
§ Mr. AlexanderI am informed by Post Office Ltd. that figures for the quarter ending March 2002 are not yet available. However, for the nine months April to December 2001 closures totalled 208 comprising 167 rural and 41 urban offices.
The information is not available on a constituency basis.