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Post Office closures: MP meets officials
A SOUTH Bucks MP will be meeting with Post Office officials this week to discuss the future of eleven Post Offices earmarked for closure.
Cheryl Gillan, the MP for Chesham and Amersham, is to meet Gary Herbert - the man leading the consultation over plans to shut 2,000 Post Offices nationwide.
The meeting comes after yesterday's Parliamentary debate, where Mrs Gillan put her case for not closing five Post Offices in her constituency.
She told the Bucks Free Press she was "very disappointed" Post Office Minister Pat McFadden did not attend the debate, with the Minister of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Malcolm Wicks, taking his place.
But Mrs Gillan added she will be meeting Mr McFadden later this evening to discuss the closures further.
All of the petitions campaigning against the Post Offices closures have also been passed on to Post Office bosses.
Speaking of yesterday's debate, she said: "I hope I have made out a good case for a reprieve on some, if not all, of them. I appreciate some will be easier than others to reprieve, but I don't think I can do anything else.
"It was very important for my constituents to raise this on the floor of the house."
The consultation period ends next Monday.
4:15pm Wednesday 23rd July 2008
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CommentPosted by: morty, High Wycombe on 5:11pm Wed 23 Jul 08
Perhaps Wycombe's MP could attend this meeting?
Perhaps Wycombe's MP could attend this meeting?
Posted by: Observer, of Westminster on 11:09pm Wed 23 Jul 08
Wycombe's MP is much too busy travelling between his London home and his taxpayers' funded house in his constituency.
Wycombe's MP is much too busy travelling between his London home and his taxpayers' funded house in his constituency.
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