Departmental Postal Services
Justice
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Alistair Carmichael (Orkney & Shetland, Liberal Democrat)
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice which companies are under contract to his Department to provide mail services; and when each such contract expires.
Michael Wills (Minister of State, Ministry of Justice; North Swindon, Labour)
The Ministry of Justice currently has no formal contracts for mail services. However, it has a number of local agreements with both Royal Mail and DX limited. We recognise that the absence of established contracts is not satisfactory and are in the process of completing a further competition against the Buying Solutions Postal Framework. It is expected that we will have a formal contract in place by January 2010.