HC Deb 02 November 1994 vol 248 cc1189-90W
Mr. Grocott

To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage what is the average cost to his Department of answering (a) a written and (b) an oral parliamentary question.

Mr. Dorrell

I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave as Financial Secretary to the Treasury to my hon. Friend the Member for Hertfordshire, West (Mr. Jones) on 30 November 1993,Official Report column 387.