Benefit Payments

HC Deb 25 February 1999 vol 326 cc433-4W

Mr. Field

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what estimate he has made of(a) the transaction costs of benefit payment and (b) the costs of paying benefit using the current method if paid through automatic credit transfer. [73029]

Angela Eagle

The transaction fees payable by this Department, to the various agents who supply benefit payment services, are commercial in confidence and cannot be disclosed.