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Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Stephen O'Brien (Conservative), on Thursday, 15 January 2004, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 51 members in total.

CLOSURE OF URBAN POST OFFICES

That this House calls on the Government to ensure that the Post Office closure programme for urban post offices is conducted systematically and only after first consulting all relevant parties including post office users, local public bodies and authorities and the relevant honourable Member of Parliament, allows for adequate time for such consultation, takes into account not only the distance between existing post offices but also physical obstacles such as hills, rivers, canals and major roads between each post office and the nature of the community served by each post office including factors such as deprivation and concentrations of older or disabled people, has special regard to the level of deprivation in the area being served by the post office, and takes the views of both the public and Postwatch into account before announcing any closures; believes that the Government's failure to intervene has resulted in the closure of urban post offices which would have remained open had a systematic closure programme with full consultation been undertaken by the Post Office; and therefore deplores the closure of any post office which did not take these factors fully into account.

Amendments

The Early day motion has received 16 amendments.

431A2
Line 14, at end add ', information on these being available from hon members of this House,'
431A4
Line 14, leave out 'of any post office' and insert 'Buxton Road Sub-Post Office, Macclesfield.'
431A1
Line 14, leave out 'any post office' and insert 'West Derbyshire Post Offices in Nottingham Road, Bridge Street, Parks Estate, Matlock Green.'
431A3
Line 14, leave out from 'of' to end and insert 'Northwood Hills Post Office.'
431A13
Line 14, leave out 'any post office' and insert 'the Chalkwell Park, Inverness Avenue, 1627 London Road, West Leigh and Woodside Post Offices in Southend West.'
431A14
Line 14, leave out 'any post office' and insert 'Chesham and Amersham Post Offices in Chesham Bois, Amersham, Hyde Heath, Amersham, Winchmore Hill, Amersham, and Botley Road Chesham'.
431A15
Line 14, leave out 'any post office' and insert 'Bennett Road, Cranleigh Road, Gresham Road, Holdenhurst Road, Priory View Road, Southbourne Road, Uplands Post Offices in Bournemouth East.'
431A5
Line 14, leave out 'any post office' and insert 'Springfield Hill, Queens Road, Goldlay Avenue, Main Road Broomfield, Trent Road, Kings Road and Duke Street Sub post offices.'
431A6
Line 14, after 'office', insert 'in Taunton.'
431A7
Line 14, leave out 'any' and insert 'Evesham's High Street.'
431A8
Line 14, leave out 'any post office' and insert 'the Pinkneys Road and Spencers Road Post Offices in Maidenhead.'
431A9
Line 14, ;eave out 'any post office' and inster 'New Town Post Office, Uckfield, Hawkswood Post Office, Hailsham, and Whitehill and Jarvis Brook Post Offices, Crowborough'.
431A10
Line 14, after 'office', insert 'in the Vale of York constituency,'
431A16
leave out 'any post office' and insert 'the Woodlands Park and Ross Road Post Offices in Maidenhead.'
431A11
Line 14, leave out 'any post office' and insert 'Prioirs Park Post Office in Tewkesbury.'
431A12
Line 14, leave out 'any post office' and insert the Wells post office in Epsom.'

Secondary information

Type
Early day motion
Reference
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Session
2003-04
Subjects
Closures Post offices Urban areas
Link
View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk