Post Offices
(asked on 27th October 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many post offices there are in each (a) constituency and (b) local authority area by (i) location, (ii) rurality and (iii) type of post office.
Answered by
Blair McDougall
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Post Office Limited publishes monthly data on the number of branches trading across the UK, including their locations and rurality. The latest dataset, covering September 2025, is available on the Post Office Limited’s website at: 2025-september-network-numbers-online-list-v2.xlsx
Post Office Limited’s most recent annual Network Report includes data on branch types. You can access it here: network-report-2024-final-5.pdf.
Parliamentarians can find data on branch locations by constituency in the House of Commons Library.