§ Mr. Gareth Wardellasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish in the Official Report for the latest year for which information is available for each right hon. and hon. Member, the arithmetic mean in days that his Department took to reply to letters.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerInformation in the form requested could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. However, samples taken from the records of correspondence dealt with during the period October 1985 to December 1985 indicate that the average time taken to reply to hon. Members' correspondence is approximately 3½weeks.