§ Mr. KirkwoodTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will publish a list for each month during which the new centralised system of claiming payments for dental charges on form AGI has been in operation, showing the average time taken to process the claim in that month, together with a list of the average time of processing similar claims for the last six months of the previous locally based system.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe only available information about average clearance times of claims dealt with by the agency benefits unit was given in my replies to the hon. Members for Edinburgh, South (Mr. Griffiths) and for Angus, East (Mr. Welsh) on 18 July 1988 and 13 January 1989 at column489 and columns 246–48 respectively. No information is available about the clearance times of claims dealt with under the previous system.