HC Deb 24 February 1982 vol 18 cc426-7W
Mr. Skeet

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many parliamentary questions were answered by his Department in the most recent year for which figures are available; and whether this represents an increase or decrease over previous years.

Mr. Heseltine

Statistics on parliamentary questions answered are kept by sessional years, the lengths of which are not precisely comparable. In the following table the

figures in brackets represent the number of sitting days on which questions were answered in the House of Commons:

Year Number
1978–79 (90 days) 1,538
1979–80 (240 days) 3,498
1980–81 (164 days) 2,352