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Business of the House

When the Leader of the House concedes a debate on the threat to thousands of post offices—as I am sure that he will, given the non-partisan way in which he exercises his office—will he frame its terms broadly enough to include a discussion of the closure of thousands of bank branches? That will enable us to raise the concern of our constituents that 20 per cent. of all bank branches have closed in the past 10 years, and that the promise not to close the last branch in town is being systematically undermined by the stretching of that commitment if, for example, there is branch in another village four miles away.