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Proposed Closure And Franchising Of Crown Post Offices

EDM number 1073 in 2015-16, proposed by Mary Creagh on 04/02/2016.
Categorised under the topic of Postal services.

That this House notes the importance of Crown Post Office services to the communities they serve; further notes the economic benefits that the Crown Post Office brings to city centres and high streets; regrets that Post Office Ltd has proposed the closure of three Crown Post Offices in Belfast South, South Antrim and Vale of Glamorgan, and the franchise of 39 Crown Post Offices in Bermondsey and Old Southwark, Birmingham Edgbaston, Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, Bromsgrove, Broxtowe, Bury St Edmunds, Ceredigion, City of Durham, Edmonton, Halifax, Harlow, Hartlepool, Hitchin and Harpenden, Hornsey and Wood Green, Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Lancaster and Fleetwood, Leeds North West, Lewes, Lewisham West and Penge, Maidenhead, Meon Valley, North Oxfordshire, Paisley and Renfrewshire South, Peterborough, Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, Ruislip Northwood and Pinner, Sittingbourne and Sheppey, South Suffolk, St Austell and Newquay, St Ives, Stoke-on-Trent South, Suffolk Coastal, The Cotswolds, Tiverton and Honiton, Vale of Clwyd, Wakefield, and Westminster North; and urges the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills to intervene to protect Crown Post Office jobs and services, and the local high streets and shopping centres where they are located.

This motion has been signed by a total of 19 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Mary Creagh04/02/2016WakefieldLabourProposed
Cat Smith04/02/2016Lancaster and FleetwoodLabourSeconded
Jim Dowd04/02/2016Lewisham West and PengeLabourSeconded
Neil Coyle04/02/2016Bermondsey and Old SouthwarkLabourSeconded
Alasdair McDonnell04/02/2016Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Mark Williams04/02/2016CeredigionLiberal DemocratSeconded
Roberta Blackman-Woods04/02/2016City of DurhamLabourSigned
Catherine West08/02/2016Hornsey and Wood GreenLabourSigned
Lady Hermon09/02/2016North DownIndependentSigned
Virendra Sharma09/02/2016Ealing, SouthallLabourSigned
David Simpson10/02/2016Upper BannDUPSigned
Alan Meale10/02/2016MansfieldLabourSigned
Chris Stephens10/02/2016Glasgow South WestScottish National PartySigned
Dennis Skinner11/02/2016BolsoverLabourSigned
Yasmin Qureshi22/02/2016Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Paul Monaghan22/02/2016Caithness, Sutherland and Easter RossScottish National PartySigned
Jim Cunningham22/02/2016Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Greg Mulholland08/03/2016Leeds North WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Karen Buck24/03/2016Westminster NorthLabourSigned

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