§ Mr. Worsleyasked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will state averages, taken over a convenient period in each of a number of selected years from 1937 to 1962, of the number of supplementaries asked for each Parliamentary Question answered orally, and also the average length of the original reply, of the supplementary and of the reply to the supplementary.
Mr. MacleodThe following table shows the information required in the form of daily averages, taken over the last week before the Christmas Recess in certain selected years: