Question follow-through · 30309
Delivery Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure parcel delivery companies are held to account when they have (a) extremely low satisfaction rates and (b) poor reviews.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 10 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 19 Feb 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure parcel delivery companies are held to account when they have (a) extremely low satisfaction rates and (b) poor reviews.
12 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Feb 2025
Answer published
Ofcom is the independent regulator for the postal sector with the responsibility and powers to regulate postal services.Ofcom’s approach to protecting consumers is to include a condition that all postal operators must establish, make available, and comply...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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