National Savings And Investments

Mr. Martyn Jones
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many successful traces have been concluded by National Savings and Investments on dormant savings and investments in each month since November 2001; [102935](2) what progress has been made by the tracing service for dormant savings and investments by National Savings and Investments since its introduction. [102936]

Ruth Kelly
National Savings arid Investments' new Tracing Service was launched in November 2001. Information is available on a monthly basis from February 2002, with the results for the first three months (November 2001 to January 2002) only available on a consolidated basis. To date, about 35 per cent. of all requests have resulted in successful traces. The number and value of successful traces are as follows:-------------------------------
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|November 2001 to January 2002|
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|February 2002                |
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|March 2002                   |
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|April 2002                   |
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|Ma 2002                      |
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|June 2002                    |
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|Jul 2002                     |
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|August 2002                  |
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|September 2002               |
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|October 2002                 |
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|November 2002                |
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|December 2002                |
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|January 2003                 |
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|February 2003                |
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|Total                        |
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