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Royal Mail

My hon. Friend is absolutely right to say that there has been a history of poor industrial relations in Royal Mail. Not only did we have a national strike two years ago and various local disputes in between, leading up to the current situation, but poor industrial relations have been a constant feature of the attempt to introduce change in the company. My hon. Friend referred to a story that was in the media over the weekend. Let me read out Royal Mail's statement on the story:""The contents of the e-mail sent to us by Newsnight do not reflect Royal Mail's policy, strategy or position in relation to the current dispute with the CWU…No member of the board or the senior management team at Royal Mail has seen, or is aware of any such presentation…For the avoidance of any doubt Royal Mail has never had any strategy to derecognise the CWU and nor would we seek to do so.""