Question follow-through · 89123
Postage Stamps: Price Caps
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has had recent discussions with Ofcom on the future of the second class stamp price cap.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 10 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 13 Nov 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has had recent discussions with Ofcom on the future of the second class stamp price cap.
12 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Nov 2025
Answer published
Ministers and officials meet with Ofcom regularly to discuss a range of issues in relation to its role as the independent regulator for the postal sector.Affordability is at the heart of Ofcom's regulatory framework. On 4 November, Ofcom published a call ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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