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Post Offices: Bank Services

Asked by Kim JohnsonLabourDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 23 October 2025UIN 83450

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to his Department's Green Paper: Future of Post Office, published on 14 July 2025, what progress the Department has made in hosting discussions between Post Office and the banking sector on Post Office cash and banking services.

Answered by Blair McDougall

The Economic Secretary to the Treasury and I plan to co-chair a roundtable with the Post Office and key banks. This will provide an opportunity to discuss where future potential collaboration, on a commercial and voluntary basis, may be in the interests of both parties. This will take place in due course.

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