§ Mr. McMasterTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 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. Lennox-BoydThe number of answers given to parliamentary questions over the past five years recorded in the POLIS database as including a reference to part or all of the information being available only at disproportionate cost by this Department was 76, representing some 0.5 per cent. of the total number of questions answered in the period concerned.
Information relating to which of these questions could now be answered is unavailable and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.