Question follow-through · 54248
Revenue and Customs: Cheques
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.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 22 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 2 Jun 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 May 2025
Question tabled
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.
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jun 2025
Answer published
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.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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