| Heading: |
Revenue and Customs: Cheques |
| Question ID: |
1805526 |
| UIN: |
54248 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-22 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4107 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Dame Harriett Baldwin
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| Asking Member handle: |
hbaldwin
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@hbaldwin
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost was to HMRC of administering cheque payments to (a) people and (b) companies in 2024-25. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-02 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4797 |
| Answering Member display name: |
James Murray
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| Answering Member handle: |
jamesmurray_ldn
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@jamesmurray_ldn
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
The cost of sending cheque payments to people and companies in 2024-5 was £1.7 million. HMRC does not keep separate figures for cheques sent to people and companies. |
| Original answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
14 |
| Answering body name: |
Treasury |
| Tweeted: |
true |