Question follow-through · 51176
Postal Services: Universal Service Obligation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment his Department has made of Royal Mail’s compliance with its Universal Service Obligation in areas experiencing delivery delays of 7 to 10 days between mail deliveries.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 9 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 May 2025
- Answer
- 16 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment his Department has made of Royal Mail’s compliance with its Universal Service Obligation in areas experiencing delivery delays of 7 to 10 days between mail deliveries.
13 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 May 2025
Answer published
It is for Ofcom, as the independent regulator of postal services, to set and monitor Royal Mail’s service standards, and to decide how to use its powers to investigate and take enforcement action.In December 2024, following its investigation of Royal Mail...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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