HC Deb 28 October 1994 vol 248 c868W
Mr. Grocott

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

Mr. Sackville

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