PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Royal Mail: Universal Service Obligation (28 November 2023)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment she has made of fhe adequacy of Ofcom's enforcement of the postal services obligation on Royal Mail.

Asked by:
Sir Bernard Jenkin (Conservative)

Answer

Ofcom is the designated independent regulator for the postal sector and the Government has no role in its regulatory decisions. It is for Ofcom to decide how to respond should Royal Mail fail to meet its obligations and I note that the regulator recently fined the business £5.6m for failing to meet its service delivery targets in 2022-23.


Answered by:
Kevin Hollinrake (Conservative)
4 December 2023

Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.