Question follow-through · 20355
NHS: Postal Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will have discussions with Royal Mail on ensuring that NHS correspondence is given a guaranteed next day delivery status.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 16 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 24 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will have discussions with Royal Mail on ensuring that NHS correspondence is given a guaranteed next day delivery status.
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Dec 2024
Answer published
The NHS has a Digital First strategy and most urgent appointments are already communicated by other means. The Government does not have a role in the operational decisions of Royal Mail as it is an independent business. However, in November, I met with Ro...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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