CLOSURE OF POST OFFICES IN ESSEX

Early day motion 495, tabled 6 December 2007 by Bob Spink (Conservative). Signed by 18 members.

That this House notes with concern the announcement of the planned closure of many more post offices in Essex; believes that post offices offer a vital service to the community; further believes that the closures are likely to have a particularly negative impact on elderly and disabled members of the community and that these closures could result in the degradation of the local communities; and calls on the Government to boost, rather than close, post offices by reversing the cuts in public business carried out in post offices.

Signatures by party: Labour 6, Conservative 4, Liberal Democrat 4, Independent 2, DUP 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.