Question follow-through · 9941
Letter Boxes
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential relationship between the height of letter boxes and back injuries for post men and women.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 18 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 28 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential relationship between the height of letter boxes and back injuries for post men and women.
22 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2024
Answer published
I recognise that postal workers may be at risk of repetitive strain injury or inconvenience caused by letterboxes or letterplates that are inappropriately positioned in doors. Guidance on letterplate specifications is already referenced in Approved Docume...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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