§ Mr. McMasterTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the subjects on which his Department or its predecessors formerly answered parliamentary questions directly but which are now referred by him to an executive agency.
§ Mr. LangI normally ask the chief executives of the executive agencies for which I am responsible to reply to 175W parliamentary questions on subjects covering operational matters carried out by them under the terms of their framework document. Such replies are then published in the Official Report.