| Heading: |
Post Offices: Rural Areas |
| Question ID: |
1759276 |
| UIN: |
26881 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4742 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Stuart Anderson
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| Asking Member handle: |
_AndersonStuart
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@_AndersonStuart
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to (a) protect and (b) enhance the Post Office network in rural areas. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-03 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
177 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Gareth Thomas
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| Answering Member handle: |
GarethThomasMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@GarethThomasMP
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
Government recognises the key role that Post Offices play in their communities, and how branches in rural areas often act as community hubs, and so we are listening carefully to stakeholders to ensure the whole network, including these important rural bra... |
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| Answering body ID: |
214 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Business and Trade |
| Tweeted: |
true |