Parliamentary Questions (Hansard, 14 November 1989)

§ Mr. Fisher
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what was the cost to his Department of answering parliamentary(a) oral and (b) written questions in the parliamentary Session 1988–89.

§ Mr. Archie Hamilton
No record is kept of the cost of answering parliamentary questions.

§ Mr. Fisher
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many(a) oral and (b) written questions were asked of his Department in 1988–89.

§ Mr. Archie Hamilton
The information requested is not held centrally. However, an approximate record is available in the House of Commons Library.

§ Mr. Fisher
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many written parliamentary questions he refused to answer in the parliamentary Session 1988–89.
188W

§ Mr. Archie Hamilton
None.

§ Mr. Fisher
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many written parliamentary questions to him in Session 1988–89 received answers that the information(a) was not available, (b) was not separately recorded, (c) was not centrally recorded, (d) was not recorded in Government statistics or (e) could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

§ Mr. Archie Hamilton
The information requested could be provided only at disproportionate cost.