§ Mr. KirkwoodTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many written parliamentary questions were passed for answer to executive agencies and non-governmental departments in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [14985]
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§ Mr. BurtThe information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the table:
Session Written answers provided by agency chief executives 1992–93 495 1993–94 442 1994–95 389 1995–96 to date 155 Note:
Written parliamentary questions concerning matters which have been delegated to the chief executive of an executive agency in its framework document, normally receive a reply from the Minister to the effect that he or she has asked the chief executive to reply direct to the Member by letter.
Source:
Departmental archive of written answers; figures were obtained by a clerical count and may be subject to error.