§ Mr. FisherTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many(a) oral and (b) written questions were asked of his Department in 1988–89.
§ Mr. WaddingtonReadily available information within this Department relates to the number of questions answered by Home Office Ministers before the summer recess, and is as follows:
- 558—Oral questions
- 2,878—Written questions
I understand that further information is available in the Library.
§ Mr. FisherTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many written parliamentary questions he refused to answer in the parliamentary Session 1988–89.
§ Mr. WaddingtonNone, apart from those transferred to other Government Departments.
§ Mr. FisherTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many written parliamentary questions to him in the parliamentary Session 1988–89 received answers that the information(a) was not available, (b) was not separately recorded, (c) was not centrally recorded, (d) was not recorded in Government statistics and (e) could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
§ Mr. WaddingtonThis information is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
§ Mr. FisherTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the cost to his Department of answering parliamentary(a) oral and (b) written questions in the parliamentary Session 1988–89.
§ Mr. WaddingtonThis information is not held centrally.