Rather than use my question as an opportunity to talk up the union, communities who are being left without vital Post Office services would rather know what steps the Secretary is taking to protect and grow the Post Office network.
Tag: Post Office
Post Office job losses show that it is at crisis point and that the UK Government is putting yet another valued public service on a pathway to privatisation via managed decline. The UK Government must commit to increasing the subsidy to the Post Office in the upcoming spending review. So many communities and groups rely […]
SNP MP Marion Fellows has today called on the UK Government to “set a date in stone” for the review into the Post Office Horizon scandal after the Post Office Ltd CEO told sub-Postmasters that the review may be delayed. In a written answer to Mrs Fellows on 14 July, Minister Paul Scully MP confirmed […]
SNP MP, Marion Fellows, has today written to UK Business Secretary, Alok Sharma MP, to continue the public subsidy of Post Office Ltd to prevent branch closures and to provide clarity on ‘Project Neo’. Correspondence from Post Office CEO, Nick Reade, says that Post Office Ltd’s Project Neo will aim at “delivering lower costs” and […]
Today, SNP MP Marion Fellows has called on the UK Government to continue providing public subsidy to Post Office Ltd after figures reveal Scotland is still being hit hardest by the Postmaster crisis. Pre-Covid Post Office figures show that as of 31 March, Scotland had the highest number of temporarily closed Post Offices in the […]
Campaigning SNP MP Marion Fellows has renewed calls on the UK government to launch an independent inquiry into its mismanagement of the Post Office Limited network and the Horizon system scandal.Ahead of a Westminster Hall debate today, the SNP MP also urged the UK government to ensure that costs of the Horizon case did not […]
FULL STORY HERE. The Tories are driving the Post Office – yet another valued public service – into the ground through a privatisation regime of managed decline. Post Offices must remain in public hands. It isn’t surprising that branches remain closed for so long. We are in the midst of a Postmaster crisis. They are […]
I’m extremely proud to announce that I have been elected as a Vice Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Post Offices. Post Offices are a vital public service which deserves investment and respect – not managed decline as we are seeing from the UK Government. I have fought for communities and staff since […]
The SNP has welcomed the news that the Post Office has agreed to pay hundreds of former staff £58m in settlement fees over a faulty accounting system which led to fines, sackings, prosecutions, bankruptcies and jail sentences over the last decade. The SNP led the call for the UK government to step in and address […]
Former MP for the Motherwell and Wishaw constituency and the SNP’s candidate, Marion Fellows, will vow to keep fighting to protect Post Office branches in local communities if re-elected on the 12th of December. Mrs Fellows spearheaded the campaign in Parliament to improve remuneration for Subpostmasters as thousands across Scotland and the rest of the […]