Benefit Payments (Post Office)

HC Deb 17 July 2000 vol 354 c32W

28. Mr. Evans

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what the value of benefits paid through the Post Office was in 1999. [129349]

Mr. Rooker

The value of social security benefits paid through the post office by order book and girocheque during 1999 was £56 billion.