Question follow-through · 17755
Business and Consumers: Stamps
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of proposed increases in stamp prices on (a) consumers and (b) businesses.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 3 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 5 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 5 Dec 2024 · 2 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of proposed increases in stamp prices on (a) consumers and (b) businesses.
5 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Government does not have a role in Royal Mail’s commercial decisions, including the prices of stamps and other services. In setting its prices, Royal Mail must observe the regulatory framework set by Ofcom which imposes price controls, ‘safeguard caps...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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