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Post Office: Access

Asked by Ben Obese-JectyConservativeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 28 April 2025UIN 45190

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the Post Office's ability to adhere to its Access Criteria.

Answered by Gareth Thomas

The Government works to ensure Post Office Limited maintains a minimum number of branches and a geographical spread of branches in line with published access criteria. My Department has assessed the Post Office network meets Government-set access criteria at a national level. The Post Office publishes its annual network report which sets out their performance publicly each year and it can be found here.

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