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Change in Scotland can be achieved to give people new life and new hope but, reading this document, I fear terribly that that is not the direction in which we are going.
My colleague Ross Finnie, the Minister for Rural Affairs, has had a meeting with the managing director of POCL in Scotland and I am sure that the Post Office now understands fully our determination to ensure the retention of a proper network of rural post offices. We welcome the proposals in the new Post Office Bill to establish new statutory criteria for access to post office counter services, to be monitored by a new postal services commission.
I have two brief points. I welcome the news that Polmont will receive funding for its new hall, which, given the state of two of the present halls, has been needed for a long time.
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Minister for Transport will next visit the Stirling district. I hope to visit the Stirling district, in my capacity as Minister for Transport, soon.