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Spring Budget
We have a Spring Budget each year when the powers that be legislate charges/allowances/etc for the next 12 months and often beyond.
Does anyone know of a valid reason why increases in Postal Charges and Prescription Charges are announced at a different time and without too much prominence? The Prescription Charge increase in my daily newspaper was simply three lines of text at the foot of another story.
Does anyone know of a valid reason why increases in Postal Charges and Prescription Charges are announced at a different time and without too much prominence? The Prescription Charge increase in my daily newspaper was simply three lines of text at the foot of another story.
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Given that Royal Mail is a privately- owned company (with HM Government selling the final part of its share in the business last October), the Chancellor of the Exchequer has no control over postal charges and the Government neither receives income from them nor pays out any money received from taxation to Royal Mail.
17:35 Sun 13th Mar 2016
Given that Royal Mail is a privately-owned company (with HM Government selling the final part of its share in the business last October), the Chancellor of the Exchequer has no control over postal charges and the Government neither receives income from them nor pays out any money received from taxation to Royal Mail.
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You may find this, from 2014, interesting – but I doubt it.
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You may find this, from 2014, interesting – but I doubt it.
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