10. To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform when his Department plans to announce which post offices in West Yorkshire are due to close and the proposed dates of the closures. (156877)

On 17 May, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced the Government’s response to the public consultation on the post office network.

Post Office Ltd is carrying this forward through 50 local area implementation plans over the next 15 months.

No decisions have been made about any individual post offices in West Yorkshire. According to the timetable set out by Post Office Ltd., which is publicly available on its website, the local consultation on the West Yorkshire plan is scheduled to begin in April next year.