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Child Benefit: Personal Records

Volume 470: debated on Thursday 24 January 2008

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the cost was of maintaining the child benefit database in each of the last five years for which figures are available. (173359)

The costs of running and maintaining the child benefit IT system, including charges for system infrastructure, over the last five years have been:

£ million

2003-04

6.5

2004-05

5.1

2005-06

3.7

2006-07

6.2

2007-08 (up to and including October 2007)

5.1