§ Mr. MeacherTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport what proportion of correspondence received by(a) his Department and (b) each of his Department's agencies receives (i) and acknowledgement within five days and (ii) a substantive reply within 15 days.
§ Mr. MacGregorAll correspondence received by my Department and replied to by Ministers receives an acknowledgement which is dispatched within two days. In 1993, up to the end of November, 65 per cent. of ministerial correspondence received a substantive reply which was dispatched within 15 days. Some 19,023 ministerial letters were answered in this period.
Information about executive agencies' correspondence is not held centrally. This is a matter for the chief executives concerned.