To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the cost to the public purse of the Benefits Agency was in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08. (228622)

The Benefits Agency ceased to exist in 2002.

Information concerning the cost to the public purse of the Department for Work and Pensions is available in its 2008 Departmental Report (Cm 7401), copies of which are in the Library.