Question follow-through · 110370
Royal Mail
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, on how many occasions have Ministers in his Department have met with representatives of Royal Mail since September 2025.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 3 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 9 Feb 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, on how many occasions have Ministers in his Department have met with representatives of Royal Mail since September 2025.
9 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Feb 2026
Answer published
Ministers from the Department for Business and Trade have met three times with representatives from Royal Mail since September 2025. Earlier this month, I met Royal Mail’s CEO, Alistair Cochrane. The Secretary of State subsequently met Daniel Křetínský, t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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