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• Consultation to inform Post Office state aid application launched

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  • Updated: 8 November 2016

• Government completes final sale of its stake in Royal Mail at 455p per share

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 13 October 2015

• Government to begin disposal of its remaining Royal Mail shareholding

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 12 October 2015

• New chair of Post Office Limited appointed

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 13 July 2015

• Royal Mail employee share gift: ministerial direction

  • Display type: Correspondence
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and 1 others
  • Updated: 16 June 2015

• Government sells 15% of shares in Royal Mail at 500p per share

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and 1 others
  • Updated: 11 June 2015

• Government to begin selling remaining Royal Mail shareholding

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 10 June 2015

• 2010 to 2015 government policy: postal service reform

  • Display type: Policy paper
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and 1 others
  • Updated: 8 May 2015

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Entrustment of Post Office with the delivery of public services: letter to Paula Vennells (2015)

  • Display type: Correspondence
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 2 April 2015

• Banks agree protocol on branch closures

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and 1 others
  • Updated: 26 March 2015

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Government shares: future primary sales

  • Display type: Independent report
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 18 December 2014

• Debate encouraged on future process for stock market flotations

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 18 December 2014

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Banking needs of vulnerable consumers: letters to banks

  • Display type: Correspondence
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 28 November 2014

• Shareholder Executive: portfolio businesses

  • Display type: Corporate report
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and 1 others
  • Updated: 24 November 2014

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Royal Mail privatisation: government response to the BIS select committee

  • Display type: Policy paper
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 23 October 2014

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Government releases share allocations for 16 Royal Mail investors

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 2 May 2014

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Government names 16 Royal Mail investors

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 30 April 2014

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Government responds to National Audit Office report: “The Privatisation of Royal Mail”

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 1 April 2014

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Winners of Post Office Community Enterprise Fund competition announced

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
  • Updated: 11 December 2013

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Post Office secures additional government investment to complete branch modernisation

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 27 November 2013

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Royal Mail Share Offer

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 10 October 2013

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Royal Mail share offer

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 10 October 2013

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Royal Mail share offer

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 27 September 2013

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Royal Mail: myth-busters

  • Display type: Guidance
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and 1 others
  • Updated: 12 September 2013

• Royal Mail announcement of intention to float

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 12 September 2013

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Postal Affairs Minister visits Scottish Post Office to mark 1,000-branch milestone in modernisation programme

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 6 September 2013

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Firms invited to act as intermediaries for retail share offer in Royal Mail sale

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 7 August 2013

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Government announces plans to make it simple for Royal Mail employees to participate in share scheme

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 30 July 2013

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Royal Mail: sale of shares

  • Display type: Policy paper
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and 1 others
  • Updated: 10 July 2013

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Government confirms stock market flotation for Royal Mail

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 10 July 2013

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Royal Mail privatisation: amount paid to UBS and Lazard for advice

  • Display type: FOI release
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 6 June 2013

• Business Minister Michael Fallon appoints joint global co-ordinators and joint bookrunners for the planned sale of shares in Royal Mail

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 29 May 2013

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Jo Swinson comments on Royal Mail and Post Office 'Click and Collect' announcement

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 29 May 2013

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Letter from Michael Fallon MP to Royal Mail employee

  • Display type: Correspondence
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 21 May 2013

• Michael Fallon response to Royal Mail’s annual results

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 21 May 2013

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Royal Mail sale commercial not ideology – Fallon

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 29 April 2013

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Royal Mail – Ensuring long term success

  • Display type: Speech
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 29 April 2013

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Postal Affairs Minister visits Somerset Post Office to mark 500th milestone in Post Office's modernisation programme

  • Display type: Press release
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 9 April 2013

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Post Office Mutualisation

  • Display type: Statement to Parliament
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 21 May 2012

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

• Mutualisation of the Post Office

  • Display type: Consultation outcome
  • From: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
  • Updated: 19 September 2011

  First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government