§ Mr. Gareth Wardellasked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish in the Official Report for the latest year for which information is available for each hon. and right hon. Member representing constituencies in Wales, the arithmetic mean in days that his Department took to reply to letters.
§ Mr. Nicholas EdwardsThe information is given in the table:
Letters received from hon. and right hon. Members representing constituencies in Wales between 1 January 1985 and 31 December 1985 Constituency Average number of working days taken to reply Aberavon 16 Alyn and Deeside 13 Blaenau Gwent 15 Brecon and Radnor* 12 Bridgend 15 Caernarfon 16 Caerphilly 15 Cardiff Central 15 Cardiff North 13 Cardiff South and Penarth 14 Cardiff West 17 Carmarthen 13 Ceredigion and Pembroke North 14 Clwyd North West 15 Clwyd South West 14 Cynon Valley 13 Delyn 15 Gower 16 Islwyn 11 Llanelli 14 Meirionnydd Nant Conwy 17 Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney 13 Monmouth 15 Montgomery 15 Neath 18 Newport East 14 Ogmore 12 Pontypridd 12 Rhondda 15 Swansea East 15 Swansea West 16 Torfaen 15 Vale of Glamorgan 14 Wrexham 15 Ynys Mon 14 * This figure refers only to the sitting Member
§ Mr. Gareth Wardellasked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish in the Official Report for the latest year for which information is available, the total numbers of letters that he has received from hon. and right hon. Members representing constituencies in Wales.
§ Mr. Nicholas EdwardsBetween 1 January 1985 and 31 December 1985, the latest year for which figures are558W available, Ministers in my Department received 2,667 letters from hon. and right hon. Members representing constituencies in Wales, which required substantive replies.
In addition several hundred letters were received but not recorded. These included letters that required a standard reply, were copied for information or provided further information about an ongoing case.