To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security when Mrs. Yvonne Syme of 5 Barber close, Bartestree, Hereford applied for a refund of class 2 national insurance contributions for the period June 1988 to December 1990; and when she can expect payment to be made.

Operational aspects of the collection and refund of national insurance contributions are matters for Miss Ann Chant, the chief executive of the Contributions Agency. She will write to my hon. Friend and copies will be place in the Library and the Public Information Office.