§ Mr. McMasterTo ask the Secretary of State for Education how many parliamentary questions to his Department have not been answered because of disproportionate costs or because the information requested was not held centrally over the last five years; how many could be answered now due to computerisation and/or more effective operational systems; and if he will list each such question along with the name and constituency of the hon. Member who tabled it.
§ Mr. BoswellThe number of answers given to parliamentary questions by the Department for Education—and the Department of Education and Science prior to April 1992—between January 1987 and December 1993 recorded in the POLIS database as including a reference to part or all of the information being available only at disproportionate cost was 260. Details of each of these questions can be obtained from the POLIS database, access to which is available in the Library. The further information requested is not currently available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.