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Post Offices: Closures

Richard Younger-Ross: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he expects to make a statement on the outcome of the Post Office closure consultation. [132269]

Jim Fitzpatrick: The Government’s consultation on the future of the Post Office network attracted over 2,500 responses. We are currently considering these responses with the aim of announcing our decisions in May.

Post Offices: Urban Areas

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what estimate he has made of the proportion of people in urban areas who use post offices regularly. [132640]

Jim Fitzpatrick: This is an operational matter for Post Office Ltd. Alan Cook the managing director has been asked to reply direct to the hon. Member.

Sustainable Development

Susan Kramer: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how much money has been (a) allocated for grants and (b) disbursed by the Clearskies Initiative in each month since the scheme began. [131692]

Malcolm Wicks [holding answer 16 April 2007]: The information requested is as follows.

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Clear Skies Programme—Household stream
£
Month	Allocated	Disbursed
2003
April	18,800	500
May	71,000	6,000
June	53,700	23,500
July	86,700	15,500
August	89,000	25,500
September	135,100	27,200
October	188,250	44,000
November	181,800	54,000
December	121,400	50,600
2004
January	158,750	96,500
February	259,100	97,700
March	268,400	118,000
April	180,050	152,200
May	206,500	119,950
June	330,700	142,500
July	151,000	149,350
August	181,200	132,100
September	190,000	125,600
October	103,600	112,950
November	106,300	147,300
December	77,500	100,500
2005
January	67,300	139,800
February	82,600	134,600
March	131,500	102,800
April	122,600	117,200
May	137,600	61,900
June	154,100	113,500
July	144,100	80,900
August	169,700	76,600
September	181,400	103,500
October	254,800	87,700
November	297,300	124,500
December	175,800	109,500
2006
January	291,600	130,400
February	116,700	114,400
March	400	208,500
April	—	145,200
May	—	141,500
June	—	95,300
July	—	93,300
August	—	74,700
September	—	65,000
October	—	45,900
November	2,000	52,700
December	11,600	60,900
2007
January	—	21,800
February	—	9,210
March	—	900

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Clear Skies Programme — Communities stream
£
Month	Allocated	Disbursed
2003
June	480,121.51	—
July	—	—
August	—	—
September	897,316.12	13,396.95
October	—	—
November	—	8,474.90
December	866,706.48	13,757.98
2004
January	—	—
February		13,342.00
March	564,974.57	—
April	—	13,350.73
May	—	38,906.57
June	636,600.27	44,785.66
July	—	15,555.11
August	—	22,009.41
September	693,582.79	84,713.03
October	—-	3,967.00
November	—	23,049.56
December	644,277.43	19,324.52
2005
January	—	124,965.56
February	—	231,066.31
March	632,480.48	22,690.80
April	—	116,699.88
May	—	103,203.02
June	—	79,084.23
July	—	94,861.29
August	676,644.31	126,676.04
September	—	101,242.50
October	—	96,637.47
November	—	180,335.95
December	744,407.76	306,317.92
2006
January	—	269,361.05
February	—	192,334.38
March	—	185,585.38
April	—	255,749.37
May	—	158,060.52
June	—	58,740.57
July	—	155,840.55
August	—	166,018.95
September	—	19,753.75
October	—	134,608.62
November	—	149,658.06
December	—	266,291.39
2007
January	—	149,824.30
February	—	166,121.24
March	—	730,141.61

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