§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Prime Minister 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.
§ The Prime MinisterThe information requested is available in the Library of the House. However, I have answered approximately 1,300 written questions since October 1991, just over 1 per cent. of which were not answered either wholly or partly on the ground of disproportionate cost.