Found: public transport fares and the declining high street presence of essential services like banks, post

Found: These services may include some or all of banks, post offices and cafés, pubs and restaurants.

Found: -Essential services: launderettes, banks, post offices, convenience stores for top up shopping, cafes

Found: challenges in our high streets, including: Loss of shops and services that play a community role – post

Found: challenges in our high streets, including: Loss of shops and services that play a community role – post

Found: introduction of tactile markings or objects placed near the entrance of key high-street locations, such as post-offices

Found: Stores has repeatedly found that the top three services that have the most positive impact locally are Post

Found: airlines and travel agents, and leaflets distributed by the Passport Office, foreign exchanges, Post

Found: We also have post offices, as I said.

Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to prevent the closure of local post offices.

Answered by Kevin Hollinrake - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)

Government is committed to ensuring the long-term sustainability of the Post Office network and has provided over £2.5 billion in funding to support the Post Office network over the past decade and is providing a further £628 million for the Post Office between 2022 and 2025.

The Post Office network is not in decline. As CEO Nick Read confirmed recently, the network is as large as it has been for about five years with around 11,700 branches. Government continues to monitor Post Office's network numbers and performance, and Post Office publishes an annual network report.

Found: From 1 February 2019, you can only get IDPs over the counter from 2,500 UK Post Offices They cost £5.50

Found: effect: This amendment to the definition of “post office” in clause 8(1) extend s the definition to post