Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Kelly Tolhurst and Virendra Sharma

Tuesday 19th March 2019 Commons Chamber

[Mr Virendra Sharma (Ealing, Southall) (Lab)]

At the last general election, Labour promised to introduce a “Post Bank” to combat financial exclusion and ensure that everyone has access to banking services in their community. Does the Secretary of State agree that introducing a Post Bank to provide banking services in post offices would do wonders for the high street, as well as reducing financial exclusion?

[Kelly Tolhurst]

The hon. Gentleman gives me an opportunity to talk about the fact that we already offer banking services in our post offices. As I outlined earlier, we are doing the most we can to make sure that post offices and sub-postmasters are remunerated for the work they do.