| Heading: |
Postal Services: Universal Service Obligation |
| Question ID: |
1785158 |
| UIN: |
38569 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-17 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4008 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Dame Caroline Dinenage
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| Asking Member handle: |
cj_dinenage
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@cj_dinenage
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of Universal Service Obligation reform on the affordability of postal services for consumers. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-25 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4418 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Justin Madders
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| Answering Member handle: |
justinmadders
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@justinmadders
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| Answer text: |
It is the responsibility of Ofcom, as the independent regulator of postal services, to ensure that the universal postal service is affordable for customers as well as being efficient and financially sustainable. In its consultation document proposing a pa... |
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| Answering body ID: |
214 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Business and Trade |
| Tweeted: |
true |