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HANSARDCrown Post Offices: FranchisingI give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff Central (Jo Stevens), as she has not yet spoken.10 Jan 2019HANSARDCrown Post Offices: FranchisingI absolutely agree. I give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Reading East, as he said he would be brief.10 Jan 2019HANSARDCrown Post Offices: FranchisingMy hon. Friend highlights a key issue that simply has not been heard, understood or addressed by the Post Office. These postal services matter not just to customers and staff but…10 Jan 2019HANSARDCrown Post Offices: FranchisingMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The Minister will hear “suspended”, “halted”, “paused” and “moratorium” over and over during this debate. It is not just about bank closures,…10 Jan 2019HANSARDCrown Post Offices: FranchisingI could not agree more, and I know that my hon. Friend is a tremendous champion of that workforce in his Bury constituency. That point goes to the heart of how a publicly owned…10 Jan 2019HANSARDCrown Post Offices: FranchisingMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, but it does something else: it prevents the Post Office from being able to adapt, change and build new strategies for survival in the future. A…10 Jan 2019HANSARDCrown Post Offices: FranchisingAs the Member of Parliament for Wigan, I am duty-bound to assure my hon. Friend that the best pies in the country are found in my constituency.10 Jan 2019HANSARDCrown Post Offices: FranchisingI am grateful to the Minister for trying to address some of our concerns, but the community is not being consulted on whether the post office is moved into WHSmith. A consultation…10 Jan 2019HANSARDCrown Post Offices: FranchisingThat is what I am trying to do.10 Jan 2019HANSARDCrown Post Offices: FranchisingI thank all the many Members who have turned up today to show the strength of feeling that there is in every corner of this country. I am grateful to the Minister for sitting…10 Jan 2019HANSARDCrown Post Offices: FranchisingI beg to move, That this House has considered franchising of Crown Post Offices and the effect on high streets and local communities. I refer Members to my entry in the Register…10 Jan 2019HANSARDCrown Post Offices: FranchisingMy hon. Friend is absolutely right; that is a story I hear over and over from colleagues around the country. Behind those losses is a loss of spending power in our towns. Over…10 Jan 2019HANSARDCrown Post Offices: FranchisingI absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. On that basis, I was quite horrified at what happened last month when I went to my Crown post office to talk to the staff. I went with a…10 Jan 2019HANSARDCrown Post Offices: FranchisingMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, and that is the view expressed very strongly by my constituents in Wigan. Over in Oldham, Members have had a significant response to a public…10 Jan 2019HANSARDCrown Post Offices: FranchisingI agree, and I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Reading East (Matt Rodda) might have an issue from his constituency that is relevant to that point.10 Jan 2019HANSARDCrown Post Offices: FranchisingMany Members have similar anecdotes from their constituencies—I can see that the Minister is listening, and I am grateful to her for doing so. I have learned that access to post…10 Jan 2019HANSARDCrown Post Offices: FranchisingThe hon. Gentleman’s constituents clearly have a very strong voice here.10 Jan 2019HANSARDCrown Post Offices: FranchisingI absolutely agree that that is happening, and the public can see it is happening, which accounts for the anger and the public response, particularly from older people, who the…10 Jan 2019