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Postal Services: Universal Service Obligation

Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 102844, tabled on 5 December 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he plans to take steps to amend the Postal Services Act 2011 to allow Royal Mail to move to five-day letter delivery.

Answered on

13 December 2022

The Government has no current plans to change the statutory minimum requirements of the universal postal service which are set out in the Postal Services Act 2011.

There is a clear and transparent process for how changes to the universal postal service should be considered and any change would need to be made through secondary legislation and agreed by Parliament.

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Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy