Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to introduce building regulations banning the positioning of letter boxes at a low level.

Statutory guidance refers to independent guidance on letter plates which states they should be positioned in a range of 700 millimetres up to 1700 millimetres. To improve matters, our review of access to and use of buildings, with Part M of the building regulations, includes ergonomic research looking at level options for posting and picking up letters. Government will also soon be consulting on options to increase security in existing homes, looking at the statutory guidance on doors.