Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will require that the chief executive of the Post Office publishes the full list of ATMs being removed from (a) inside and (b) outside community post offices in (i) March and (ii) April 2022; and if he will make a statement.

The decision whether to publish information on the removal of Post Office ATMs is an operational matter for the Post Office.

ATMs that have been removed from the Post Office network are owned and operated by the Bank of Ireland. The Post Office has informed us that the Bank of Ireland ATM contract expires on 31st March 2022 and there are only 48 more ATMs to be removed in their programme between now and the end of March.

Post Office agreed to take over and operate 1,411 ATMs from the Bank of Ireland and are currently in the process of migrating the Bank of Ireland ATMs onto the Post Office network.