Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 29 October 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what assessment he has made of the effect on the income of post offices in Northern Ireland of recent measures to modernise the network.
In 2010, the Government committed to provide £1.34 billion to 2015 to both maintain the Post Office network, and to provide for the modernisation of up to 6,000 branches under the Network Transformation programme, which rolled out nationally in October 2012.
At the end of September 2013, the subpostmasters and operators of 1,870 post offices had signed contracts to convert their branches to new operating models under the Network Transformation programme. 65 of these branches are in Northern Ireland.
Subpostmasters converting under Network Transformation benefit from investment into their branches and transitional payments. Customers are benefitting from much longer opening hours, and improved branches. Research shows that converted branches are seeing an average increase of 10% in post office customers, and 12% in retail sales.
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