Post Office: Franchises
Commons · Question 4962 · Tabled 29 May 2026 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record
Answered 8 Jun 2026
Question
Asked by Joshua Reynolds
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department keeps a formal record or minutes of the monthly financial monitoring meetings held between his Department, UK Government Investments and Post Office Limited to review funding req
Answer
Answered by Blair McDougall, 8 Jun 2026
The Department funds Post Office Limited’s (POL) Strategic Transformation Plan (STP), including activities to franchise former Directly Managed Branches.Funding approvals are based on monthly requests from POL, detailing actual and forecast spend across a...