Dr. ThomasTo ask the Prime Minister on what basis it was judged appropriate in her reply to the hon. Member for Epping Forest (Sir J. Biggs-Davison),Official Report,6 May, columns 628–44, on Government achievements in the United Kingdom since May 1979, to incur an expenditure above the standard upper limit for resourcing answers to parliamentary questions.
§ The Prime MinisterI refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my right hon. Friend the Paymaster General on 14 March 1988, at column429. On this occasion it was decided that since the question concerned a large number of Departments it was appropriate to give a consolidated answer.