The health service regulator Monitor has appointed independent consultants to look at how services in the area should be re-organised - to ensure that they meet local needs, and the NHS can afford them.
By no means do I intend to diminish either the sincerity of her service as a career regulator or question her integrity.
According to one congressman, staffing at the National Geology and Mining Service, the industry regulator, has not increased much since it was founded in 1980, despite a fivefold increase in the output of copper in that period.
But any sell-off is likely to be balanced by firm guarantees for the continuation of a universal service supervised by an independent regulator.
By implication, the regulator thinks the universal service is in no danger provided Consignia gets its act together.
Initially, they can do this by attaching an opt-out sticker near to their letterbox, but the regulator will ask the service to work on an alternative, electronic opt-out system.
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What may ultimately most help BP as a defense in its several lawsuits is the negligence of the key regulator, the Minerals Management Service.
He encouraged other people and organisations to also complain to the regulator about the "unacceptable" service which was hitting commuters to the city.
The company, which provides water to 3.7 million homes and businesses in England and Wales, is already facing a fine from regulator Ofwat for missing earlier customer service performance standards.
Phil Davis, spokesman for the passenger group Travel Watch West Midlands, said he would complain to the regulator about the "unacceptable" service which was hitting commuters to the city and advised other commuters and groups to do the same.
Mr Riseley said the regulator would instead focus on quality of service through measuring performance.
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The former rail regulator said direct entry into the police service had the potential to "change the face of modern British policing for the better".
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In 1910 the federal regulator responsible for rail took on the new service of telephony.
From next year, changes to the ratings system will give more weight to the views of those using care services and fines will be able to be levied against providers the regulator considers are not providing a good enough service.
Responding to the Contingency Planning Team Report by the regulator Monitor, it said the proposed downgrading of service provision is "dramatic".
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Big changes could be made to the regional ITV service in the south of Scotland, under proposals from the communications regulator Ofcom.
Andy Duncan, its new chief executive, says the situation needs addressing now, not in five years' time as the media regulator, Ofcom, said in a review of public-service broadcasting in September.
Recall Dish already received regulator approval last year to start land-based mobile-phone service.
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This requires the regulator to maintain the balance between profit-seeking and provision of a public service.
He proposed that there should be a new independent regulator with teeth, which could also offer a "one-stop-shop" mediation service for libel and privacy cases, as an alternative to the courts.
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