division_name: Post Office
motion: <p class="" pid=".176.3/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid=".176.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House notes that under this Government the Post Office has gone from a profitable organisation to a business that is making half-yearly operating losses of &#163;100 million, has the worst strike record of any business in the country and is consistently failing to meet its delivery targets; deplores its reported intention to abandon its morning delivery guarantee; condemns the Government for retaining Consignia in full public ownership while at the same time refusing to take any responsibility for its failures; further notes that in the last financial year another 547 sub post offices closed; regrets the Government's determination to press ahead with the withdrawal of benefit payments across the counter despite its failure to put in place any alternative source of income, thus threatening the survival of thousands more; and further condemns the Government's total mismanagement, which has created the crisis that is facing the Post Office today.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid=".187.0/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move, To leave out from "House" to the end of the Question, and to add instead thereof:</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid=".187.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">"condemns the running down of the Post Office under 18 years of Conservative government, which saw 3,500 post offices close, hundreds of thousands of days lost through industrial action, a lack of investment which allowed the Post Office to slip behind its competitors, a failure to give the Post Office the commercial freedom it needed to invest and compete; congratulates the current Government for giving the Post Office commercial freedom to make its own decisions, enshrining the universal service obligation in legislation, establishing a new regulatory framework, bringing in new managers, modernising and supporting the post office network and encouraging partnership between employers and unions; and furthermore notes that Consignia invested &#163;296 million in the last financial year, is addressing its cost base, strengthening its management and striving to achieve a world class service in Britain.".</p>
  
  <p pid=".254.2/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>The House having divided:</i> Ayes 185, Noes 324.</p>