Postal Services: Ashfield
Commons · Question 17881 · Tabled 4 Dec 2024 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record
Answered 12 Dec 2024
Question
Asked by Lee Anderson
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that residents of Ashfield constituency are able to access essential postal services.
Answer
Answered by Gareth Thomas, 12 Dec 2024
The Government provides an annual £50m Network Subsidy funding to support the delivery of a minimum number of Post Office branches and a geographical spread of these branches in line with published access criteria. This requires 99% of the UK population t...