Parliamentary search - Royal Mail and the Post Office

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

475 c442-65WH

Session

2007-08

Department

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Pat McFadden | 475 c464WH (Link to this contribution) There are two points. First, Postcomm did not set the access price; it was negotiated by Royal Mail....

Alistair Carmichael | 475 c463-4WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister is right about the changes in the mails market as a whole. The changes were taking plac...

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Pat McFadden | 475 c463WH (Link to this contribution) I shall give way in a moment. The debate is not only about transactional services online but about h...

Pat McFadden | 475 c464-5WH (Link to this contribution) The contract specifies that whoever wins it has to have 10,000 outlets throughout the country. Some ...

Alan Reid | 475 c464WH (Link to this contribution) If the Government were to specify the contract so that the provider had to have a rural network, inc...

Pat McFadden | 475 c463WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure, Mr. Weir, to serve under your chairmanship. It is also a pleasure to be here in We...

Charles Hendry | 475 c462WH (Link to this contribution) I am saying that the money has not been able to produce the restructuring that the Government said i...

Pat McFadden | 475 c462WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman just said that the money that the Government had put in was inadequate. Can he pl...

Charles Hendry | 475 c460-2WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Argyll and Bute (Mr. Reid) on securing this timely and important ...

Alan Reid | 475 c455WH (Link to this contribution) PayPoint was able to undercut Royal Mail because it does not support the rural network that the Post...

Russell Brown | 475 c455WH (Link to this contribution) I was just about to come to the value of the universal service obligation, as someone who represents...

Andrew Turner | 475 c456-7WH (Link to this contribution) At the height of the furore surrounding post office closures on the Isle of Wight, many of my consti...

Russell Brown | 475 c455-6WH (Link to this contribution) I agree, and I hope that that will be the saving grace in relation to the POCA. We have not only lo...

Charles Hendry | 475 c460WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr. Weir, although you must have found this a dee...

Sarah Teather | 475 c457-60WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Argyll and Bute (Mr. Reid) on securing the debate, whic...

Speaker | 475 c460WH (Link to this contribution) I am entirely neutral today.

Alistair Carmichael | 475 c454WH (Link to this contribution) Bring it on!

Alistair Carmichael | 475 c455WH (Link to this contribution) It is perfectly fair for the hon. Gentleman to criticise our policy, and I would have agreed with hi...

Russell Brown | 475 c454WH (Link to this contribution) No; perhaps I used the wrong terminology. The Liberal Democrat policy of privatising certain sectio...

David Drew | 475 c448-9WH (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to take part in this important debate, particularly as it comes on the back of the is...

Alan Reid | 475 c447-8WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. I was certainly pleased with the initiative proposed by Ess...

Willie Rennie | 475 c447WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his excellent speech. I am meeting representatives of Royal Mail in about...

Alan Reid | 475 c447WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, my hon. Friend is perfectly correct. There are social costs and extra costs that rural dwellers...

David Drew | 475 c449-50WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, with which I agree. To use a horrible analogy, it has ...

Russell Brown | 475 c449WH (Link to this contribution) Before my hon. Friend moves off that point, all that opening-up of the market has not come without a...

Alan Reid | 475 c446WH (Link to this contribution) That is an important observation. However, the key thing is that, where there are Government contrac...

Lembit Opik | 475 c446-7WH (Link to this contribution) On the point about costs and internal costings, has my hon. Friend heard, as I have, from people in ...

Alan Reid | 475 c444-6WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that intervention and I completely agree with him; I intende...

Russell Brown | 475 c446WH (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman recognises, footfall is important. However, does he also recognise that the Po...

Elfyn Llwyd | 475 c452-3WH (Link to this contribution) I will be brief because I know that others wish to participate in the debate. I will not rehearse wh...

David Drew | 475 c452WH (Link to this contribution) I assume that the players at Derby are getting a bonus, but I am not sure whether it is totally dese...

Elfyn Llwyd | 475 c454WH (Link to this contribution) I will come in a minute to a court action that was launched yesterday, which the hon. Gentleman may ...

Alistair Carmichael | 475 c453WH (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that I was not here at the beginning of the debate. Does the hon. Gentleman not agree tha...

Russell Brown | 475 c454WH (Link to this contribution) I did not intend to make a contribution, so I shall keep what I am about to say as brief as possible...

Sharon Hodgson | 475 c450WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the solution is not to follow the Liberal Democrat policy, which I un...

David Drew | 475 c450-1WH (Link to this contribution) From my political perspective, I want to do everything that I possibly can to reduce competition, be...

Andrew Smith | 475 c451WH (Link to this contribution) While ancillary services are being explored, would it not make sense also to consider the future rel...

David Drew | 475 c451-2WH (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely. My last point is about investment and innovation, so I shall come to my right hon....

Sarah Teather | 475 c452WH (Link to this contribution) I feel a certain amount of frustration because the closure programme will only save £45 million and ...

Alan Reid | 475 c444WH (Link to this contribution) Well, it would be inaccurate to describe my party's policy as privatisation. I support the policy of...

Andrew Smith | 475 c444WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing the debate. Does he think that the problems he has ide...

John Grogan | 475 c444WH (Link to this contribution) Given the threat to the universal service obligation, does the hon. Gentleman think that there is a ...

Alan Reid | 475 c443-4WH (Link to this contribution) I definitely agree with my hon. Friend, who makes an important point. As far as the closure programm...

Lembit Opik | 475 c443WH (Link to this contribution) I am interested in my hon. Friend's idea about greater flexibility. He is aware of the colossal post...

Alan Reid | 475 c444WH (Link to this contribution) I will take the hon. Gentleman's word on the comparison with prices in other countries, because I ha...

Russell Brown | 475 c444WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has mentioned the increase in the cost of postage on two occasions—I arrived some...

Alan Reid | 475 c442-3WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this afternoon, Mr. Weir, to discuss a subject tha...

Subjects

Closures

Finance

Post offices

Postal services

Post Office

Royal Mail

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