Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when her Department received a copy of the Post Office's financial statements for 2021-22.

The Department received Post Office Limited’s Annual Report and Consolidated Financial Statements 2021/22 on 25 January 2023 for laying in Parliament on 23 February 2023.

A clarification to the 2021/22 Annual Report and Accounts was published by Post Office on 5 May 2023. On 11 May 2023, Minister Hollinrake wrote to the Chair of the Business and Trade Committee enclosing Post Office’s statement regarding the clarification. A copy of Post Office’s statement will be placed in the Library of the House of Commons.