§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Secretary of State for Health in respect of how many parliamentary questions a substantive answer was not provided by her Department 31W 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. SackvilleThe information is shown in the table.
Year and Month Number of disproportionate cost answers Total number of answers Percentage of Questions receiving disproportionate cost answers 1991 November 111 453 2.43 December 0 211 .00 1992 January 0 357 .00 February 2 335 .60 March 3 190 1.58 April — — — May 0 195 .00 June 3 498 .60 July 4 403 .99 August — — — September — — — October 3 270 1.11 November 3 571 .53 December 1 361 .28 1993 January 3 420 .71 February 5 571 .88 March 5 624 .80 April 2 338 .59 TOTAL 45 5,797 .78 1These questions asked for detailed information on issues relating to back and other injuries to National Health Service staff and were answered together.