House of Commons - Trade and Industry - Ninth Report

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Trade and Industry - Ninth Report

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 24 October 2006.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary
1 Introduction
2 A new financial framework

Capital investment for modernisation
The Royal Mail Pension Plan
The 2006-2010 price control
Proposed funding package for Royal Mail Group
Royal Mail Group's condition of acceptance

3 The ownership of Royal Mail Group

Royal Mail privatisation?
Royal Mail Group's proposals
Efficiency gains
Employee support for Royal Mail Group's proposals
The timetable

4 Post Office Card Account (POCA)

The cost of the POCA
Misleading information
The Post Office Network
Income for Post Office branches
Post Office branch closures
Rural Post Office network
The future of the Post Office network
Financial exclusion
Migrating customers away from POCAs
An alternative to the POCA
Joined up government

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal minutes
List of witnesses
List of written evidence

ORAL AND WRITTEN EVIDENCE - HC 1556-II
18 July 2006 (includes Written Evidence)

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Prepared 30 October 2006