§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport in respect of how many parliamentary questions a substantive answer was not provided by his Department wholly or partly on the ground of disproportionate cost in each of the last 18 months(a) in total and (b) as a proportion of questions answered.
§ Mr. NorrisThe information requested is as follows:
Month Number of Parliamentary questions answered Number of disproportionate cost answers Percentage November 1991 392 2 0.51 December 1991 173 0 — January 1992 223 0 — February 1992 371 1 0.26 March 1992 172 0 — April 1992 General Election — — May 1992 170 0 — June 1992 359 2 0.55 July 1992 259 1 0.38 August 1992 Recess 0 — September 1992 Recess 0 — October 1992 205 1 0.48 November 1992 334 1 0.29 December 1992 181 1 0.55 January 1993 196 2 1.02 February 1993 418 0 — March 1993 392 0 — April 1993 213 1 0.48 Total 4,058 12 0.29