Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:07 pm on 24th October 2007.
Lord Jones of Birmingham
Minister of State (also in the Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform), Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Minister of State (also in the Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform), Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform, Minister of State (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) (also in the Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform), Minister of State (Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform) (Trade Promotion and Investment)
3:07 pm,
24th October 2007
My Lords, only 16 people a week use the smallest 800 post offices, which costs you £17 each. It would cheaper to send their mail by taxi.
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Chris Gledhill
Posted on 25 Oct 2007 4:15 pm (Report this annotation)
That is a nonsense statistic. Is it 16 people per post office? Doutable, amounts will vary by area. 16 people in 800 post offices? Definately not.
So what is that statistic actually saying? Also, 16 people per week is 832 per year. What are they meant to do if the post offices disappear?