Post Office
Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland
2:30 pm
David Cairns (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Scotland Office; Inverclyde, Labour)
The question on the Order Paper is about rural post offices and if the hon. Gentleman thinks that Dunfermline post office is a rural post office, it shows his complete and utter ignorance of Dunfermline. It also demonstrates clearly why his party has abandoned all hope of winning the Dunfermline and West Fife constituency. Indeed, so low is the Liberal Democrats' target that they hope only to beat the Scottish National party into third place. We have put significant investment—£2 billion—into the Post Office. I am sure that as long as Dunfermline continues to have an excellent Labour MP, as it will have after the by-election in a week or two, she will continue to ensure that the Government continue their policy of supporting the Post Office.
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Robert Matthews
Posted on 25 Jan 2006 9:14 pm (Report this annotation)
The honourable gentleman would do better to stick to the question in hand and refrain from entering into an unproductive slagging session as he reportedly is doing in the apology for an answer Dunfermline is ar John Thurso says an "Urban" post office.
Bob Matthews
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