§ Mrs. Knightasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will consider the possibility of making Girocheques for unemployment benefit payable mainly at employment exchanges, to cut down the incidence of illegal cashing 787W of benefit cheques which have been stolen or lost.
§ Mr. OrmeNo. In certain exceptional cases Girocheques may be issued personally to claimants at unemployment benefit offices, but the administrative cost of doing so on a wider scale would far outweigh the savings that could be achieved.