Question follow-through · 11844

Royal Mail: Universal Service Obligation

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Royal Mail adheres to the universal service obligation.

answeredDepartment for Business and Trade

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Answering body: Department for Business and Trade
Tabled: 30 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 4 Nov 2024
Answer: 6 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

30 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that Royal Mail adheres to the universal service obligation.
4 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Nov 2024
Answer published
As the independent regulator for the postal sector, it is for Ofcom to monitor Royal Mail’s delivery of the universal service obligation and decide how to respond should Royal Mail fail to meet its obligations.Ofcom is currently investigating Royal Mail’s...

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