Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has held discussions with Royal Mail on the charge of £2.50 made to Rother Valley constituents who have received a letter with a counterfeit stamp attached.

As a private business, the operation of Royal Mail’s products and services, including extra postage charges to customers where re-used stamps have been detected, is a matter for the company’s management. The Government is not involved in Royal Mail’s commercial or operational decisions.

Royal Mail encourages customers that have come into contact with counterfeit stamps, either buying them or on a letter or parcel received in the mail to report it. Information is available on its website at www.royalmail.com/report-stamp-fraud.