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169617

	registered interest
	date	10/12/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Post Office Card Account
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of each transaction for benefit payments paid into a Post Office card account in Northern Ireland; and what that cost is in other regions of the UK.
	tabling member constituency	South Antrim
	tabling member printed	Dr William McCrea
	uin	218170
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>The cost to Government for making benefit payments into a Post Office Card Account is around £0.50 for each transaction. The cost is the same for Northern Ireland and UK payments.</p><p> </p><p>The contract is volume banded so this cost will vary according to the number of transactions.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 17/12/2014 12:23:50 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	655 label Biography information for Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown

169922

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2014
	answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	answering dept id	29
	answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
	answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
	hansard heading	Staff
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff are employed in his Department's headquarter buildings.
	tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
	tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
	uin	218319
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>DWP employs 90,577 people, and as of 30 November 2014 there were 7579 staff based across 8 headquarter sites.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 17/12/2014 14:57:35 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman