Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 13 December to Question 113922, how many of the Royal Mail's 142,000 staff are not on permanent contracts; and how many shares have been sold by employees since privatisation of the Royal Mail.

Details of Royal Mail’s employee numbers and share ownership are published in Royal Mail’s Corporate Responsibility Report. The Government does not hold these records.