§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 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. CurryThe information is as follows:
Month Wholly disproportionate Partly disproportionate November 1991 3 4 December 1991 0 2 January 1992 0 0 February 1992 2 1 March 1992 1 0 April 1992 0 0 May 1992 0 0 June 1992 1 3 July 1992 1 1 August 1992 0 0 September 1992 0 0 October 1992 1 0 November 1992 2 0 December 1992 0 2 January 1993 0 0 February 1993 0 6 March 1993 0 4 April 1993 0 2 Total 11 25 These combined totals represent 122 per cent. of the written questions answered between November 1991 and April 1993