Question follow-through · 19208
Postal Services: Visual Impairment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has had discussions with Ofcom on the future of Royal Mail's delivery of the Articles for the Blind service.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 18 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has had discussions with Ofcom on the future of Royal Mail's delivery of the Articles for the Blind service.
12 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Dec 2024
Answer published
Section 31 of the Postal Services Act 2011 outlines the minimum requirements of the universal postal service and includes the requirement that free-of-charge postal services are provided to people who are blind or partially sighted. Earlier this year, I m...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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