Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Kelly Tolhurst and Emma Dent Coad

Tuesday 22nd October 2019 Commons Chamber

[Emma Dent Coad (Kensington) (Lab)]

T8. As 90,000 postal delivery workers threaten to go on strike at Christmas over job security and employment rights that were promised but remain undelivered, I note that the chief executive of privatised Royal Mail earns nearly 35 times what our beloved posties earn. Given the creeping privatisation of our post offices that is devastating community assets, will the Minister consider renationalising all our postal services, as demanded by the good citizens of South Kensington, who have lost their post office, so that they will deliver to the nation, not to the pockets of the few?

[Kelly Tolhurst]

I thank the hon. Lady for her question, but I have to disappoint her because my answer to it is no.