Asked by: Warinder Juss (Labour - Wolverhampton West)
Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of Royal Mail delivery delays on people living in Wolverhampton West.
Answered by Kate Dearden - Minister of State (Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade)
The government has been clear that Royal Mail’s quality of service has not been good enough and Ofcom, as the independent regulator, has opened an investigation into Royal Mail’s quality of service performance for 2025-26.
As Royal Mail is an independent company, responsibility for improving local delivery performance lies with Royal Mail’s management. Royal Mail has published a quality of service improvement plan alongside a £500 million investment into frontline resourcing to address the non-completion of delivery routes, and I trust that residents in Wolverhampton West will soon see an improvement in service with these measures.
Asked by: Warinder Juss (Labour - Wolverhampton West)
Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make it his policy to phase in the introduction of new reduced quotas and increased tariffs on steel imported from overseas.
Answered by Chris Bryant - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
The steel trade measure will be introduced from 1 July 2026 to ensure there is no loss of protection when the UK steel safeguard expires.
The Government has carefully designed the new steel trade measure to strike the right balance between protecting UK steelmaking and maintaining fair, competitive supply chains for downstream users.
We recognise the need to manage impacts on businesses, and therefore we are introducing a transitional arrangement so that the measure will not apply to goods already under contract before 14 March and imported between 1 July and 30 September 2026.
We will also review the measure after 12 months to ensure it remains effective.
Asked by: Warinder Juss (Labour - Wolverhampton West)
Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of regulations allowing dormant companies to be appointed to (a) statutory and (b) regulatory roles.
Answered by Blair McDougall - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade) (Jointly with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
It may be appropriate for dormant companies to hold some statutory or regulatory roles. No recent assessment has been undertaken across all statutory and regulatory roles. The Government keeps company law, as a whole, under regular review and makes changes when issues arise. If there is evidence of an issue, the department is happy to look into it.