Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy written question – answered am ar 10 Rhagfyr 2018.
Lord Bassam of Brighton
Chair, Regenerating Seaside Towns and Communities Committee, Chair, Regenerating Seaside Towns and Communities Committee
To ask Her Majesty's Government what representations, if any, they have received about the downgrading of the main post office in central Clacton-on-Sea.
Lord Henley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)
The Post Office in central Clacton-on-Sea is not being downgraded, but rather transferred to WHSmith so that it is operated on a franchise basis. WHSmith already operate 135 Post Office branches and the vast majority of branches, around 98% of the 11,500-branch network, are already operated by third parties on a franchise or agency basis.
The Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy has not received any representations on the franchising of the Post Office in Central Clacton-on-Sea. The Post Office will run a 6-week public consultation in 2019 and will notify elected representatives in due course.
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