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Backlash grows against closure threat to Post Offices in London
Evening Standard
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11/15/2024
Backlash grows against closure threat to Post Offices in London
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Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. The Lady will be aware of the news yesterday that 115 post offices
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are subject for closing, which will have a massive impact on our high streets that are already
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struggling. The Kennington Park branch in my constituency is one of those facing possible
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closure, in addition to the Brixton branch and the Vauxhall Bridge branch, which are
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bordering my constituency. Our post offices are the cornerstone for many of our residents.
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A number of them cannot walk, a number of them cannot use online services. The dedicated staff
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that work in our post offices know those constituents. Does the Leader agree with me
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that we should have a debate in government time on making sure that if these post offices are
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going to close, we have a full equality impacts assessment and the post office consider their
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decisions? Well she's absolutely right. The government inherited a post office that was
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simply not fit for purpose following a lot of disinterest from the previous government and the
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post office does need serious culture change. I would assure her that no decision, as I understand
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it, has been taken around the future of Crown post offices. But I know for my own constituency,
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where recently the Spring Gardens Crown post office in Manchester was closed, what a big
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issue this is for local communities and I would encourage every constituency MP, like her,
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to raise these matters here and directly with ministers.
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