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Post Offices: Mid Bedfordshire

Asked by Blake StephensonConservativeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 7 January 2026UIN 101945

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the answer of 15 October 2025 to written question 79794, if he will make an estimate of the proportion of residents in Mid Bedfordshire constituency who live within one mile of a post office.

Answered by Blair McDougall

Post Office’s performance against the Government’s Access Criteria is assessed at a national level rather than by individual constituencies. Information on how the Post Office measures network performance against these criteria is published annually in its Network Report, which is available on the Post Office’s website.

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