§ Mr. AllenTo ask the President of the Board of Trade in respect of how many parliamentary questions a substantive answer was not provided by his Department wholly or partly on the ground of disproportionate cost in each of the last 18 months(a) in total and (b) as a proportion of questions answered.
§ Mr. Eggar[holding answer 17 May 1993]: The information requested is shown in the table.
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Year and month Number of disproportionate Total number of Answers Percentage of Questions receiving disproportionate cost Answers 1991 November 3 396 0.75 December 3 248 1.20 1992 January 3 308 0.97 February 0 312 0.00 March 2 207 0.96 April — — — May 1 173 0.57 June 12 422 2.84 July 2 343 0.58 August — — — September — — — October 6 218 2.75 November 4 542 0.73 December 5 385 1.29 1993 January 2 320 0.62 February 4 406 0.98 March 8 451 1.77 April 4 294 1.36 Total 61 5,025 1.21 The table includes those questions answered by the Department of Energy between November 1991 and March 1992.