Blair McDougall

Blair McDougall

Lab

Backbencher (MP)

CommonsEast RenfrewshireCurrent Member

Affiliation

House: Commons

Constituency: East Renfrewshire

Status: Current member

Latest Activity

Sitting day: 2026-03-11

Activity total: 51

Contributions: 51

Votes recorded: 0

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Royal Mail: Universal Service Obligation

2026-03-11 · 13:34

My hon. Friend’s constituents absolutely deserve better, and posties deserve dignity at work, given the essential job they do for our society and our economy. That is exactly why…

Royal Mail: Universal Service Obligation

2026-03-11 · 13:33

I reassure my hon. Friend’s constituents that we are expressing the frustration and anger that he has expressed to me directly to Royal Mail and through Ofcom, and of course I wil…

Royal Mail: Universal Service Obligation

2026-03-11 · 13:32

I certainly will. I thank my hon. Friend for raising that issue, as well as all the other hon. Members who have brought to me local intelligence, which informs my own understandin…

Royal Mail: Universal Service Obligation

2026-03-11 · 13:32

This is a Government who are improving the working conditions, standards and rights of workers across the economy. My hon. Friend makes the important point that there is wisdom an…

Royal Mail: Universal Service Obligation

2026-03-11 · 13:31

In a previous life, I was very proud to have worked on the Tell Us Once service at its inception, and I know how important that service is to people at the worst possible time of…

Royal Mail: Universal Service Obligation

2026-03-11 · 13:30

We rely on Ofcom as the regulator of Royal Mail, which is exactly why we are having a meeting later today to discuss what more it can do to deal with the widespread concerns that…

Royal Mail: Universal Service Obligation

2026-03-11 · 13:30

Continue to speak to me. My hon. Friend grabbed me during the votes the other night to raise local Royal Mail issues, and I know she will continue to do so.

Royal Mail: Universal Service Obligation

2026-03-11 · 13:29

The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. As I mentioned a moment ago, we are working with the Department of Health and Social Care here to ensure as many health bodies as poss…

Royal Mail: Universal Service Obligation

2026-03-11 · 13:24

We continue to seek those reassurances and the plan behind them. As I mentioned, with regard to the Scottish elections, a specific meeting between the management of Royal Mail—its…

Royal Mail: Universal Service Obligation

2026-03-11 · 13:23

The example that my hon. Friend gives about Network Rail is a reminder that, as my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central (Gareth Snell) said a second ago, this is crit…

Royal Mail: Universal Service Obligation

2026-03-11 · 13:19

I will certainly raise my hon. Friend’s concerns about important medical post with Ofcom. Royal Mail is part of the critical national infrastructure and can reach every part of th…

Royal Mail: Universal Service Obligation

2026-03-11 · 13:19

My hon. Friend is right. Her constituents absolutely deserve better, and she is right to highlight the long-standing issues that we are trying to deal with. Royal Mail should abso…