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Post Offices: Franchises

Commons · Question 29016 · Tabled 5 Feb 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 11 Feb 2025

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Asked by Daisy Cooper

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made representations with the Post Office to (a) proceed with moving all directly managed branches to a fully franchised model and (b) expedite the shift of directly managed

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Answered by Gareth Thomas, 11 Feb 2025

Nigel Railton, the Post Office Chair, has set out his ambitions for the future of the Post Office, which involves a reduction in central costs and other ways to deliver efficiencies, plus steps to improve the commercial future of the business in order to ...