HC Deb 18 May 1993 vol 225 cc130-1W
Mr. Allen

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment in respect of how many parliamentary questions a substantive answer was not provided by her Department wholly or partly on the grounds of disproportionate cost in each of the last 18 months(a) in total and (b) as a proportion of questions answered.

Mr. McLoughlin

[holding answer 17 May 1993]: The figures for parliamentary questions not answered wholly on the grounds of disproportionate cost, in each of the last 18 months, are given in the following table:

Month Number
1991
November 0
December 1
1992
January 0
February 0
March 1
April 0
May 1
June 0
July 3
August 0
September 0
October 0
November 8
December 8
1993
January 0
February 1
March 3
April 1
Total 27

This represents less than 1 per cent. of all parliamentary questions asked in the same period.

The figure for parliamentary questions where a substantive answer was not provided partly on the grounds of disproportionate cost is not recorded.