§ Mr. MeacherTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales 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; how many were referred on to an agency chief executive; and, in each case, what percentage of the total number of questions asked this constituted.
§ Mr. RedwoodBased on a text search on the POLIS database, 114 parliamentary questions answered by Ministers in this Department in the period 1 November 1992 and 31 March 1993 were either given a response that the information requested was not held centrally, or that the information could be provided only at disproportionate cost. This represents 6.2 per cent. of all written answers given in the same period. Five questions were referred to agency chief executives.