Post Office Card Account: Fife
Work and Pensions
Written answers and statements, 4 November 2009
Menzies Campbell (Fife North East, Liberal Democrat)
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many and what percentage of state benefit payments to residents of North East Fife constituency were paid into Post Office card accounts in each of the last five years.
Helen Goodman (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Work and Pensions; Bishop Auckland, Labour)
The figures are not available in the format requested.
The following table shows the precise number and percentage of benefit accounts paid into Post Office card accounts in the North East Fife constituency in each of the last five years. Benefit accounts will have multiple transactions and may include payment of more than one state benefit.
| All payment types | All POCA | Percentage paid by POCA | |
| 2004 | 23,900 | 1,580 | 7 |
| 2005 | 24,120 | 4,900 | 20 |
| 2006 | 26,630 | 5,110 | 19 |
| 2007 | 26,810 | 4,870 | 18 |
| 2008 | 27,310 | 4,540 | 17 |
| Notes: 1. Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10, percentages to the nearest whole per cent. 2. Totals may not sum due to rounding. 3. Figures are as at September in each of the five years, 2004 to 2008. 4. Figures refer to payment accounts. Customers with more than one account will be counted for each account. 5. All benefits and pensions are included but child benefit is administered by HM Revenue and Customs and War Pensions are now administered by MOD. These benefits have therefore been excluded. 6. 2004 was a transitional year in the move from order books to Direct Payment Source: DWP, Information Directorate, 100 per cent. data | |||