Post Offices

Lord Jenkin of Roding Excerpts

Monday 17th January 2011 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Wilcox]

As the right reverend Prelate will know, a Bill on the privatisation of the Royal Mail will come to the House on 25 January. Postal services will be discussed then, and it would be a good time to bring up the question again.

[Lord Jenkin of Roding]

My Lords—

[Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe]

Is the noble Baroness content that many post offices are now applying for licences to sell alcohol and displaying it on a wide scale immediately alongside the areas in which giro payments are made? Are the Government prepared to do something about it?