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Postal Services Bill

I am afraid that the Minister did not quite get my point; I was in the middle of a wonderful peroration which, had she heard it to the end, would have made it clear. I am talking not about post offices qua post offices but about post offices as an engine for doing more for the whole of Government. That is what I am trying to argue the case for. The post bank would therefore be one of a number of things that, if it were located in post offices, used and built on, would be able to sustain the network and perhaps to build back to the numbers that we want to see. However, given that this is not the time to make that sort of speech or to make these sorts of arrangements and that the amendment is framed very narrowly, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment 21B withdrawn. Amendment 21C not moved. Amendment 21D Moved by