Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 38569

Postal Services: Universal Service Obligation

Tabled: 17 March 2025
Answered: 25 March 2025

Question

Dame Caroline Dinenage

ConservativeGosport

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.

Answer

Justin Madders
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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