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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with relevant stakeholders on providing a wider range of Post Office services through banking hubs.

Ministers have had discussions with the Post Office CEO, Nick Read, to discuss the future of bank hubs. As part of the industry-led Community Access to Cash Pilots, Post Office Limited (POL) have been trialing the Bank Hub format since April 2021 both in Rochford and in Cambuslang near Glasgow.

Five new Bank Hubs are due to be operational by end of 2022 (with three more commissioned, likely at the start of next year).