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Responding to Royal Mail鈥檚 annual results out today, Business Minister Michael Fallon said:

皇冠体育appse results from Royal Mail are another encouraging step, showing how their staff and management, together with our reforms, are putting the company on a sustainable footing.

皇冠体育app final stage of our reforms is to give Royal Mail future access to private capital through a sale of shares by Government this financial year (2013/14). We are committed to a sale but its structure and timing remain open. Government is committed to implementing its reforms in full to ensure that we achieve our overall objective of securing the universal postal service.

Notes for editors

1.皇冠体育app government鈥檚 economic policy objective is to achieve 鈥榮trong, sustainable and balanced growth that is more evenly shared across the country and between industries鈥�. It set four ambitions in the , published at Budget 2011:

• to create the most competitive tax system in the G20
• to make the UK the best place in Europe to start, finance and grow a business
• to encourage investment and exports as a route to a more balanced economy
• to create a more educated workforce that is the most flexible in Europe.

Work is underway across government to achieve these ambitions, including progress on more than 250 measures as part of the Growth Review. Developing an Industrial Strategy gives new impetus to this work by providing businesses, investors and the public with more clarity about the long-term direction in which the government wants the economy to travel.