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Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Baroness Golding (Labour), on Tuesday, 29 October 1996, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 50 members in total.


CLOSURE OF CROWN POST OFFICES

That this House condemns the continued programme of Crown Post Office closures and franchising being conducted by Post Office Counters Ltd. regardless of the will of local communities or the needs of the elderly and disabled; further considers that the timescale and the consultation period of a month is farcical, driven as it is by Government dogma and not by the knowledge and needs of areas such as Newcastle-under-Lyme whose crown post office is one of the latest to be treated in this arbitrary and deplorable manner; and further calls on the Government to instruct Post Office Counters Ltd. to cease this backdoor and underhand privatisation of our post offices.


Secondary information

Type
Early day motion
Reference
83 
Session
1996-97
Subjects
Closures Privatisation Post offices Post Office Counters
Link
View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk