Post Offices: Closures
2026-06-02 · Department for Business and Trade · 6696 · Official question
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the impact of Post Office closures on elderly and digitally excluded residents in rural communities.
Answer
My Department conducted social value research into the most frequent users of the Post Office to feed into the Green Paper on the Future of the Post Office, which we published last year. This research showed that the most frequent users are typically olde...