Parliamentary Questions (Hansard, 14 November 1989)

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

§ Mr. Chris Patten
So far this Session approximately 5,800 questions have been tabled to my Department. Of these 1,050 were tabled for oral answer and 133 actually received an oral reply. The remainder have received a written answer.

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

§ Mr. Chris Patten
It is the policy of my Department to answer all parliamentary questions except those involving disproportionate cost.

§ Mr. Fisher
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many written parliamentary questions 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. Chris Patten
This information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

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

§ Mr. Chris Patten
This information is not held centrally.