Question follow-through · 106497
Royal Mail: Universal Service Obligation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is able to take to encourage Ofcom to sanction Royal Mail if it fails to fulfil its Universal Service Obligation.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 19 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 21 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 23 Jan 2026 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is able to take to encourage Ofcom to sanction Royal Mail if it fails to fulfil its Universal Service Obligation.
21 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jan 2026
Answer published
It is for Ofcom, as the independent regulator of postal services, to decide how to use its powers to investigate and take enforcement action should Royal Mail fail to achieve its obligations without good justification. In October last year, Ofcom fined Ro...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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