Adult Social Care Funding (England)
An overview of funding for adult social care in England.

This briefing paper looks at how the number of post offices has changed over time, including by type and UK region / country.
Post office numbers (406 KB , PDF)
As of March 2022, there were 11,635 post office branches in the UK.
Between March 2021 and March 2022, the number of post offices rose by 1.9%, returning to around the number seen in March 2020.
Between 2009 and 2020 the number of post offices in the UK remained reasonably consistent. Over the longer term (since the early 1980s) the number of post offices has almost halved.
In return for its government funding, the Post Office is committed to investing in the network, and maintaining around 11,500 branches with no further substantive reductions.
Over the last decade Northern Ireland has seen the most growth in the number of post offices, at 4.6%, and Scotland has seen the greatest fall at 6.4%.
The number of both rural and urban post offices has been relatively stable since 2009.
At the end of March 2022, there were
There has been a significant rise in the number of outreach services since 2000 – going from less than 1% of the total in 2000 to 16% of the total network in the latest figures.
The number of Crown branches has also fallen significantly over the period.
A data file is attached to the landing page for this briefing which gives trend data for overall numbers, numbers by contract type, numbers by urban / rural split and numbers by UK country and region.
Further details about Post Office Ltd are given in the Library Note The Post Office.
A full list of Post offices by constituency has been made available to the Library by the Post Office Ltd, since 2002. These lists are copyrighted to the Post Office and for that reason the Library is only able to provide them to Members and their staff.
A table with the numbers of post offices by constituency Post offices by constituency is available via the Parliamentary intranet only.
Post office numbers (406 KB , PDF)
An overview of funding for adult social care in England.
A briefing paper on the history, functions and membership of the Privy Council
A debate is scheduled to be held on Tuesday 17 December, at 4.30pm, in Westminster Hall on Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood. The debate will be opened by Kwasi Kwarteng MP.