HC Deb 12 December 1994 vol 251 cc470-1W
Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many parliamentary questions tabled in the last Session of Parliament were not answered on the ground that the information sought was not held centrally by the Department.

Mrs. Beckett

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many written parliamentary questions have had an answer containing the phrase, "This information is not held centrally" in each of the last five years.

Mr. Sackville

The information is shown in the table.

Session Number Percentage of total answered
1989–90 157 3.4
1990–91 192 6.2
1991–92 130 8.5
1992–93 433 7.3
1993–94 225 4.5

Source:

POLIS

Mrs. Beckett

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many written parliamentary questions have been answered with the words "No" or "None" in each of the last five years.

Mr. Sackville

The number of parliamentary questions answered by "No" or "None" in the last five Sessions is shown in the table.

Session Number
1989–90 41
1990–91 31
1991–92 16
1992–93 116
1993–94 117

Source:

POLIS

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