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Post Offices: Rural Areas

Question for Department for Business and Trade

UIN 9946, tabled on 18 October 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to increase the (a) availability and (b) affordability of Post Office services in rural areas.

Answered on

29 October 2024

To help ensure that there are affordable post office services in rural areas, the government provides an annual £50m network subsidy to support the delivery of both a minimum number of branches and strong geographical spread of branches in line with published access criteria.