HC Deb 22 February 1999 vol 326 cc99-100W
Mr. Burstow

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his answer of 16 February 1999,Official Report, column 662, concerning postal charges, what representations he has received concerning the financial effects of the charges on the publishers of periodicals. [72596]

Mr. Ian McCartney

My right hon. Friend and I have received representations from a number of individual companies and from the Periodical Publishers Association on the effects of the proposed changes to postal tariffs on the publishers of periodicals, which we have carefully noted. Changes to postal tariffs are primarily a matter for the Post Office in consultation with the Post Office Users' National Council.