Subject	Predicate	Object
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		Written answer
	answer has question	AoovpqaO
	answer has answering person	Kevin Paul Hollinrake
	answer text	<p>The Government’s objective continues to be ensuring the provision of a sustainable, accessible and affordable universal postal service.  However, as the independent regulator of postal services, regulatory decisions are a matter for Ofcom in which Government is not involved.</p><p> </p><p>Ofcom’s regulatory framework imposes price controls, ‘safeguard caps’, on certain second-class products to ensure a basic universal service is available to all at affordable prices.  Ofcom will conduct a public consultation later this year to inform a review of the safeguard caps that should apply from April 2024.</p>
	answer given date	2023-06-13
	answer has answering body	Department for Business and Trade
	written answer has answering body	Department for Business and Trade
Department for Business and Trade	answering body has written answer	n4UIXdzz
Department for Business and Trade	answering body has answer	n4UIXdzz
AoovpqaO	question has answer	n4UIXdzz
Kevin Paul Hollinrake	answering person has answer	n4UIXdzz