Departments: Postal Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what volume of correspondence his Department sent (a) by Royal Mail and (b) by other commercial delivery services in each of the last five years; and what the reasons were for the use of other commercial delivery services. (150458)

The Treasury uses Royal Mail for its postal services, and other companies for parcel and courier deliveries.

	Number of items sent by Royal Mail	Number of parcel/courier deliveries
2003	99,845	101
2004	88,868	113
2005	59,104	410
2006	56,982	184

Information for 2002 is not available.

Volume 463: debated on Monday 23 July 2007