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Post Office Card Account

Volume 451: debated on Monday 30 October 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in (a) the London Borough of Bexley and (b) Greater London have a Post Office card account. (95940)

Information is not available in the format requested.

Information showing the number of DWP benefit and pension payment accounts paid by Direct Payment into a Post Office card account in (a) the London Borough of Bexley and (b) Greater London is shown in the following table.

Greater London authorities

Number of accounts

Barking and Dagenham

15,250

Barnet

11,630

Bexley

10,700

Brent

13,560

Bromley

12,570

Camden

11,020

City of London

230

Croydon

15,950

Ealing

13,160

Enfield

15,810

Greenwich

16,400

Hackney

17,270

Hammersmith and Fulham

9,940

Haringey

14,800

Harrow

6,190

Havering

13,070

Hillingdon

10,310

Hounslow

8,850

Islington

15,900

Kensington and Chelsea

6,280

Kingston upon Thames

4,450

Lambeth

17,020

Lewisham

15,810

Merton

6,910

Newham

18,360

Redbridge

11,410

Richmond upon Thames

4,490

Southwark

16,050

Sutton

7,670

Tower Hamlets

16,740

Waltham Forest

14,590

Wandsworth

12,170

Westminster

9,530

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps his Department has taken to reduce costs of Post Office card account transactions. (96798)

My Department has taken no steps, other than those built into the original contract, to either reduce the cost of each transaction into a Post Office card account or to reduce the range or quality of services provided to customers.