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date	15/04/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Postal Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has made representations to Royal Mail on the impact of price rises on SMEs.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	21498
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2024 answer text <p>The Government does not have a role in Royal Mail’s commercial decisions, including the prices of stamps and other services.</p><p> </p><p>In setting its prices, Royal Mail must observe the regulatory framework set by Ofcom which imposes prices controls, ‘safeguard caps’, on certain second-class products to ensure a basic universal service is available to all at affordable prices.</p><p> </p><p>On 24 January 2024, following a public consultation, Ofcom announced its decisions regarding retail price caps on Royal Mail’s universal postal services to apply from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2027.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 18/04/2024 11:12:13 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1700799

registered interest
date	15/04/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Body Shop: Redundancy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether provisions have been made for employees of The Bodyshop who were made redundant.
tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
uin	21499
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2024 answer text <p>I understand this will be a concerning time for those impacted. The Department for Work and Pensions’ Rapid Response Service is a service designed to give support and advice to employers and their employees when faced with redundancy.</p><p>The range of support may include:</p><ul><li>Connecting people to jobs in the labour market.</li><li>Help with job search including CV writing, interview skills, where to find jobs and how to apply for them.</li><li>Help to identify transferable skills and skills gaps (linked to the local labour market).</li><li>What benefits they may get and how to claim.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Employees may be entitled to statutory redundancy pay, compensatory notice pay and holiday pay from the Insolvency Service. Further information may be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the-body-shop-in-administration-information-for-employees-and-creditors" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the-body-shop-in-administration-information-for-employees-and-creditors</a>.</p> answering member constituency Thirsk and Malton answering member printed Kevin Hollinrake question first answered 19/04/2024 10:13:49 answering member 4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake
tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton