HC Deb 09 January 1996 vol 269 c85W
Dr. Wright

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if answers sent to hon. Members in reply to parliamentary questions by the head of executive agencies in his Department are(a) seen, (b) approved and (c) amended by him before they are sent; and if he will identify such letters to which amendments by him have been made in 1994–95. [7828]

Mrs. Angela Knight

The letters to which the chief executives of the executive agencies responsible to the Chancellor of the Exchequer have sent to hon. Members in response to parliamentary questions were not shown to Treasury Ministers in advance.