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170304

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Postal Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if he will make an assessment of the financial sustainability of the Universal Postal Service in (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21, (c) 2021-22, (d) 2022-23 and (e) after 2023.
	tabling member constituency	Knowsley
	tabling member printed	Mr George Howarth
	uin	218700
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/01/2015 answer text <p>Parliament has given Ofcom, as an independent regulator, the primary statutory duty to secure the provision of a universal postal service and to have regard for its financial sustainability.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Ofcom have a detailed monitoring and forecasting regime in place to assess the health of the universal postal service on a monthly basis and if the evidence suggests the need for a further review – which can be carried out at any given point in time - Ofcom would not hesitate to do this.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 02/01/2015 14:02:44 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth

170305

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Postal Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, whether end-to-end postal providers other than the Universal Service Provider will be required to publish Quality of Service standards.
	tabling member constituency	Knowsley
	tabling member printed	Mr George Howarth
	uin	218701
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/01/2015 answer text <p>There are no plans to require postal providers other than the Universal Service Provider to publish quality of service standards.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 02/01/2015 11:51:06 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth

170306

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept id	26
	answering dept short name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	answering dept sort name	Business, Innovation and Skills
	hansard heading	Universal Service Obligation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what time constraints would apply to Ofcom in conducting a review of the net cost of the Universal Service Obligation.
	tabling member constituency	Knowsley
	tabling member printed	Mr George Howarth
	uin	218702
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/01/2015 answer text <p>Section 44 of the Postal Services Act 2011 covers “Review of costs of the universal service obligations”. Section 44(10) states that “Unless directed to do so by the Secretary of State, Ofcom may not carry out a review under this section before the end of 5 years beginning with the day this section came into force.”</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This means that Ofcom cannot carry out such a review before October 2016 unless directed to do so by the Secretary of State.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>After October 2016 Ofcom “may from time to time review the extent (if any) of the financial burden for a universal service provider of complying with its universal service obligations” [section 44(1)].</p><p> </p> answering member constituency East Dunbartonshire answering member printed Jo Swinson question first answered 02/01/2015 12:36:12 answering member 1513 label Biography information for Jo Swinson
	tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth

170307

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Cabinet Office
	answering dept id	53
	answering dept short name	Cabinet Office
	answering dept sort name	Cabinet Office
	hansard heading	Postal Services: Conditions of Employment
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what information he holds on the number of workers in parcel delivery companies who are (a) self-employed and (b) on zero hours contracts.
	tabling member constituency	Knowsley
	tabling member printed	Mr George Howarth
	uin	218703
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/01/2015 answer text <p>The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Reading East answering member printed Mr Rob Wilson question first answered 05/01/2015 13:51:56 answering member 1556 label Biography information for Mr Rob Wilson attachment 1 file name PQ 218703 ONS 466.pdf title ONS Letter to Member - Zero Hour Contracts
	tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth

170414

	registered interest
	date	15/12/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Prescription Drugs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 8 December 2014 to Question 216568, what discussions his Department had with patient groups other than Breast Cancer Campaign, when developing its response to the Off-patent Drugs Bill.
	tabling member constituency	Knowsley
	tabling member printed	Mr George Howarth
	uin	218845
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/01/2015 answer text <p>We have had no other discussions with patient groups other than Breast Cancer Campaign. The Bill raises a number of issues and we will be discussing these at a roundtable stakeholder event in the new year, to which a broader range of patient groups will be invited.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 06/01/2015 14:56:34 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	481 label Biography information for Sir George Howarth