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78344

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	22/07/2014
	date	16/07/2014
	date tabled	16/07/2014
	ddp created	16/07/2014 22:10:39
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 17:56:10
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Post Boxes
	house id	1
	identifier	206301
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	22/07/2014 13:45:33
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of post boxes that have been decommissioned since the privatisation of Royal Mail.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Angus
	tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 206301
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	206301
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p> </p><p>Providing Royal Mail maintains its network of access points in accordance with the framework set by Ofcom, the postal regulator, decisions relating to local post boxes are made on operational grounds by Royal Mail’s management. The company’s decisions are not subject to a consultation procedure though it does have a system of notifying and advising customers where the removal or relocation of a post box is considered necessary.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Following a consultation last year, Ofcom enhanced regulatory protection to cover all UK addresses. This was based on extensive market research to inform its understanding of the reasonable needs of postal users. Royal Mail is now required to ensure that there is a post box within 0.5 miles of at least 98% of delivery points (i.e. addresses) nationally; and for the remaining 2% of delivery points, Royal Mail must provide or procure the provision of access to the universal service by other means (for example, collection on delivery from very remote or isolated locations such as farmhouses) to meet the reasonable needs of users. Ofcom monitors Royal Mail’s national provision of access under this framework.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Royal Mail is currently exceeding the agreed level of provision on a national basis.</p><p> </p> question first answered 22/07/2014 13:45:33 answering member 1513
	creator	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

78346

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	22/07/2014
	date	16/07/2014
	date tabled	16/07/2014
	ddp created	16/07/2014 22:10:40
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 17:56:22
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Post Boxes
	house id	1
	identifier	206302
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	22/07/2014 13:45:33
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the procedures for consultation before the decommissioning of post boxes by Royal Mail.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Angus
	tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 206302
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	206302
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p> </p><p>Providing Royal Mail maintains its network of access points in accordance with the framework set by Ofcom, the postal regulator, decisions relating to local post boxes are made on operational grounds by Royal Mail’s management. The company’s decisions are not subject to a consultation procedure though it does have a system of notifying and advising customers where the removal or relocation of a post box is considered necessary.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Following a consultation last year, Ofcom enhanced regulatory protection to cover all UK addresses. This was based on extensive market research to inform its understanding of the reasonable needs of postal users. Royal Mail is now required to ensure that there is a post box within 0.5 miles of at least 98% of delivery points (i.e. addresses) nationally; and for the remaining 2% of delivery points, Royal Mail must provide or procure the provision of access to the universal service by other means (for example, collection on delivery from very remote or isolated locations such as farmhouses) to meet the reasonable needs of users. Ofcom monitors Royal Mail’s national provision of access under this framework.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Royal Mail is currently exceeding the agreed level of provision on a national basis.</p><p> </p> question first answered 22/07/2014 13:45:33 answering member 1513
	creator	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

78348

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	22/07/2014
	date	16/07/2014
	date tabled	16/07/2014
	ddp created	16/07/2014 22:10:40
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 17:56:33
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Post Boxes
	house id	1
	identifier	206303
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	22/07/2014 13:45:33
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will make representations to Royal Mail on the need to conduct local consultation prior to the decommissioning of post boxes.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Angus
	tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 206303
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	206303
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p> </p><p>Providing Royal Mail maintains its network of access points in accordance with the framework set by Ofcom, the postal regulator, decisions relating to local post boxes are made on operational grounds by Royal Mail’s management. The company’s decisions are not subject to a consultation procedure though it does have a system of notifying and advising customers where the removal or relocation of a post box is considered necessary.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Following a consultation last year, Ofcom enhanced regulatory protection to cover all UK addresses. This was based on extensive market research to inform its understanding of the reasonable needs of postal users. Royal Mail is now required to ensure that there is a post box within 0.5 miles of at least 98% of delivery points (i.e. addresses) nationally; and for the remaining 2% of delivery points, Royal Mail must provide or procure the provision of access to the universal service by other means (for example, collection on delivery from very remote or isolated locations such as farmhouses) to meet the reasonable needs of users. Ofcom monitors Royal Mail’s national provision of access under this framework.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Royal Mail is currently exceeding the agreed level of provision on a national basis.</p><p> </p> question first answered 22/07/2014 13:45:33 answering member 1513
	creator	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir

78349

	human indexable
	published
	registered interest
	answer date	22/07/2014
	date	16/07/2014
	date tabled	16/07/2014
	ddp created	16/07/2014 22:10:40
	ddp modified	07/02/2015 17:56:39
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	question status	Tabled
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Post Boxes
	house id	1
	identifier	206304
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	parliament number	55
	question first answered	22/07/2014 13:45:34
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will place in the Library all data he holds on the effect of the decommissioning of post boxes on (a) elderly and (b) disabled people.
	session	2014/15
	session number	4
	tabling member constituency	Angus
	tabling member printed	Mr Mike Weir
	title	House of Commons Tabled Parliamentary Question 2014/15 206304
	type	WrittenParliamentaryQuestion
	uin	206304
	version	1
	written parliamentary question type	NamedDay
	answer	answer answer text <p> </p><p>Providing Royal Mail maintains its network of access points in accordance with the framework set by Ofcom, the postal regulator, decisions relating to local post boxes are made on operational grounds by Royal Mail’s management. The company’s decisions are not subject to a consultation procedure though it does have a system of notifying and advising customers where the removal or relocation of a post box is considered necessary.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Following a consultation last year, Ofcom enhanced regulatory protection to cover all UK addresses. This was based on extensive market research to inform its understanding of the reasonable needs of postal users. Royal Mail is now required to ensure that there is a post box within 0.5 miles of at least 98% of delivery points (i.e. addresses) nationally; and for the remaining 2% of delivery points, Royal Mail must provide or procure the provision of access to the universal service by other means (for example, collection on delivery from very remote or isolated locations such as farmhouses) to meet the reasonable needs of users. Ofcom monitors Royal Mail’s national provision of access under this framework.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Royal Mail is currently exceeding the agreed level of provision on a national basis.</p><p> </p> question first answered 22/07/2014 13:45:34 answering member 1513
	creator	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir
	publisher	25259 pref label House of Commons
	tabling member	1384 label Biography information for Mike Weir