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The Universal Service Obligation is set out in the Postal Services Act 2011.<\/p>

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Ministers have no role in temporary changes to the service level. The regulatory conditions that require Royal Mail to deliver letters 6 days a week as part of the universal postal service also provide that Royal Mail is not required to sustain these services without interruption, suspension or restriction in the event of an emergency. Ofcom has acknowledged in this context that the COVID-19 pandemic is an emergency.<\/p>

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There is a clear and transparent process for how longer-term changes to service standards would be considered and any changes would need to be made through secondary legislation and agreed by Parliament.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4414", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Paul Scully"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Sutton and Cheam"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Paul Scully"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2020-05-22", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2020-05-22T10:36:22.07Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "201"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2020-05-15", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Postal Services: Coronavirus"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent assessment he has made of the Royal Mail's compliance with the Universal Service Obligation as the Royal Mail has announced the temporary ending of Saturday deliveries during the covid-19 outbreak.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4866", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Alexander Stafford"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Rother Valley"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Alexander Stafford"} ], "uin" : "47503"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1196249", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Church Commissioners"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1196249/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "

The most recent survey of church attendance was published in 2018, and the table below contains figures aggregated from 2014-18 using average weekly attendance figures at all age services. These figures are collected each year during four weeks in October.<\/p>

The figures in the table below include adult and child attendance at Sunday and midweek church services and fresh expressions, but not attendance at services for schools. Special local services such as memorials to commemorate flooding \u2013 can lead to fluctuations in the figures.<\/p>

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2014<\/p><\/td>

2015<\/p><\/td>

2016<\/p><\/td>

2017<\/p><\/td>

2018<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

Rother Valley*<\/p><\/td>

1,450<\/p><\/td>

1,260<\/p><\/td>

1,170<\/p><\/td>

1,130<\/p><\/td>

980<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

Yorkshire*<\/p><\/td>

82,600<\/p><\/td>

82,800<\/p><\/td>

77,600<\/p><\/td>

75,500<\/p><\/td>

75,200<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

Church of England<\/p><\/td>

975,300<\/p><\/td>

959,900<\/p><\/td>

921,700<\/p><\/td>

893,900<\/p><\/td>

870,900<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

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More information can be found in the annual Statistics for Mission report: https://www.churchofengland.org/media/18763<\/a><\/p>

Parish boundaries do not coincide with constituency or county boundaries. Figures in the table are based on reasonable approximations as follows:<\/p>