Royal Mail and the Universal Service Obligation

Order. It is busy, and we have a number of speakers. I will set an informal time limit of four mi...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Ali, and to contribute briefly to the debat...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Ali. I congratulate the hon. Member for Jar...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Ali. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member ...

It is a pleasure to serve under you today, Ms Ali. I have spoken about Royal Mail quite a bit in ...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Ali. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for ...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Ali. As the MP for the largest constituency...

It is a pleasure to follow my comrade, the right hon. Member for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tw...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Ali. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Memb...

Ms Ali, after 26 years of being in the House, it is a great pleasure to speak in a debate with yo...

Order. Can the hon. Member tell the House whether he has informed the Member he mentioned that he...

I am not talking about a Member of the House. Daniel Křetínský is the owner of Vesa Equity Invest...

Fine; it is a similar name.

Finally, will the Minister undertake to defend the universal service obligation and not dumb it d...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Ali. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member ...

It is an honour to speak under your chairship, Ms Ali. I want to start by expressing my solidarit...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Ali. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for ...

Royal Mail and the universal service obligation force us to ask questions about public services, ...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Ali. I start by congratulating my hon. Friend ...

It is a pleasure to speak with you in the Chair, Ms Ali. I congratulate the hon. Member for Jarro...

My simple question is: how will the Minister vote on the Bill on Monday?

We will have a good opportunity to debate the Bill on Monday, so I do not want to get dragged int...

Yes or no?

As the Minister concerned, clearly I will vote in favour, as the hon. Gentleman would imagine, bu...

I take what the Minister says in good faith, but could he maybe just respond to some of our conce...

The hon. Gentleman raises an important point. I will come on to the Vesa point later, but set out...

Before the Minister concludes, will he comment on the fact that Royal Mail is openly bragging tha...

I will come on to that important point.

Among other things, Royal Mail is required by Ofcom...

I thank all hon. and right hon. Members for speaking in the debate. I am not surprised to hear th...