§ Ms. PrimaroloTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will make it his policy that, henceforth, written answers from his Department will be published as before.
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§ Mr. EggarRecent changes to the way that written parliamentary questions are answered by Ministers in this Department have been in the context of the establishment of the Employment Service as an executive agency and of training and enterprise councils. The arrangements for responding to inquiries from hon. Members were described in the booklets that were sent in April to right hon. and hon. Members entitled "The Employment Service: The Handling of MP's Inquiries and Parliamentary Questions" and "Guidelines on the handling of representations by members of parliament about the activities of Training and Enterprise Councils". I refer the hon. Lady to the answer on 21 May,Official Report, columns 145–52.