Question follow-through · 38959
Post Boxes: Housing Estates
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has considered providing access to post boxes in new housing developments.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 18 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 26 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has considered providing access to post boxes in new housing developments.
20 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Mar 2025
Answer published
The government is not responsible for providing access to 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. Royal Mail is currently required by Ofco...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Hospitality Industry: Rural Areas
12 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure that rural hospitality businesses are adequately supported in the context of (a) rising wholesale food prices, (b) energy costs, (c) increased (i) wage and (ii) NIC pr