Question follow-through · 68656
Delivery Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will have discussions with Ofcom on the average time taken for parcel deliveries in (a) rural and (b) urban areas.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 16 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 24 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will have discussions with Ofcom on the average time taken for parcel deliveries in (a) rural and (b) urban areas.
21 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Jul 2025
Answer published
Ofcom is the independent regulator for the postal sector with the responsibility and powers to regulate postal services.Ofcom engages regularly with parcel operators to understand their approach to implementation of Ofcom’s consumer protection measures. T...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Insolvency
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Companies: Insolvency
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Companies: Debts Written Off
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