Captain CROOKSHANKasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he can give the latest figures showing the number of individual accounts in the Post Office Savings Bank and the total amount represented by these accounts?
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Mr. SAMUELThe number of accounts, excluding accounts with balances of amounts under £1 on which no transaction has taken place for at least five years, was 9,818,000 at the 31st December, 1928, and the total amount due to depositors at that date was £288,690,000.