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Post Offices

Volume 455: debated on Tuesday 9 January 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the average population is of towns with a post office. (104955)

I understand that Post Office Ltd does not hold this type of information, because it is not required for operational purposes.

Post office branches are classified as being in either a rural area (in a settlement under 10,000 population) or an urban area (settlements over 10,000 population); the latest figures show that there are 7,754 branches classified as rural and 6,509 branches classified as urban.