HC Deb 29 April 1994 vol 242 cc354-5W
Mr. Meacher

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many parliamentary questions, in the period November 1992 to March 1993, were answered with the response that the information requested is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost; and how many were referred on to an agency chief executive.

Mr. Hague

In the stipulated five-month period a total of 1,183 questions were asked of this Department. The POLIS database in the Library has identified 65 questions as not answered on the grounds of disproportionate cost or because the information was not held centrally. Agency chief executives replied to 150 questions.