Postal Services: Crimes of Violence
Business, Innovation and Skills
Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will estimate the number of (a) Post Office and (b) Royal Mail staff that were assaulted in (i) 2010 and (11) 2011.
Jo Swinson (East Dunbartonshire, Liberal Democrat)
Post Office Ltd and Royal Mail management are responsible for the day-to-day running of their respective companies, which includes the information requested. I have therefore asked both Paula Vennells, chief executive of Post Office Ltd, and Moya Greene, chief executive of Royal Mail, to respond directly to the hon. Member with regard to their respective companies; copies of their replies will be placed in the Libraries of the House.