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Question follow-through · 28323

Post Boxes

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, which Department is responsible for ensuring the mandatory installation of post boxes.

answeredDepartment for Business and Trade

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Answering body
Department for Business and Trade
Tabled
3 Feb 2025
Target answer date
5 Feb 2025
Answer
10 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, which Department is responsible for ensuring the mandatory installation of post boxes.

  2. 5 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 10 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    The government is not responsible for ensuring the mandatory installation of post boxes.Section 29(6) of the Postal Services Act 2011 requires Ofcom, as the independent regulator, to “secure the provision of sufficient access points to meet the reasonable...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Export Controls: Russia

26 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, for what reason his Department has issued licenses for the export to Russia of (a) medicinal and pharmaceutical products, (b) beverages and tobacco, (c) organic chemicals, (d) cars, (e) toilet and clea

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Oil: Exports

26 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what information his Department holds on oil exports to Russia which are (a) processed, (b) traded, (c) refined and (d) financially insured in the UK.

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Oil: Exports

26 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps to prevent oil produced in the UK arriving in Russia.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Oil: Imports

27 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has plans to ban imports from third country refineries that process Russian crude oil.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Oil: Imports

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Post Boxes

28 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2025 to Question 28323 on Post Boxes, if he will hold discussions with Ofcom on the potential merits of implementing an enforcement mechanism to require Royal Mail

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Business: Environment Protection and Staff

28 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will take steps with Cabinet colleagues to require regulators to help support businesses to meet their fiduciary responsibilities to (a) employees and (b) the environment.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Overseas Trade: Russia

3 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what information his Department holds on the amount of trade insured by UK-based companies with a final destination in Russia.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Business: EU Countries

3 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an estimate of the cost to UK businesses of having agents in individual EU member states.