To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 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. (150446)

From information held centrally, the core-Department has not used commercial delivery services other than Royal Mail.

The core-Department has issued the following volumes of correspondence by Royal Mail since 2003.