Post Offices: Fylde
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take step to help prevent non-crown Post Office closures in Fylde.
Answered by Gareth Thomas
Government protects the sustainability of the branch network by providing funding on the basis that Post Office meets minimum access criteria for example including in Fylde, that across the country, 99% of the population live within three miles of their nearest Post Office. Government works to ensure Post Office Limited maintains a minimum number of branches and a geographical spread of branches in line with the published access criteria. Along with the annual £50 million subsidy, we have provided a further £37.5 million in December last year to safeguard services in the uncommercial parts of the network.
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