To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what volume of correspondence her 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. (150440)

Information on the volumes of correspondence sent by Royal Mail and by other commercial delivery services for the last five years are not held.

The volume of correspondence dispatched from the Home Office headquarters in 2 Marsham Street in year 2006-07 sent by Royal Mail comprise 32,902 individual items and 6,613 sacks of mail (approximately 200 items per sack). Other commercial mail delivery services were not used in 2006-07 other than limited use of courier companies.