Parliamentary Questions (Hansard, 18 April 1995)

§ Mrs. Ann Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage (1) how many parliamentary questions to his Department in each year since 1992–93 requesting a priority written answer or answer on a named day, were answered within three days; how many received a holding reply; and how many of those which received a holding reply then received a substantive answer within a further five, 10, 15, 20 days or longer; [18482]

(2) how many parliamentary questions to his Department that were transferred for answer to the chief

	1990–91	1991–92	1992–93	1993–94	1994–95
Historic Royal Palaces
(a), (b) and (c)¹	228,350	183,682	205,089	678,814	502,238
(d)	70,000	70,000	80,000	108,000	138,000
(e) = total (a) to (d)	298,350	253,682	285,089	786,814	640,238
(f) proportion of (e) spent on recruitment (per cent.)	4.1	5.6	5.8	2.3	3.9

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executive or other senior official of a non-departmental public body or agency for which he has responsibility received an answer which was not printed in the Official Report in each year since 1992–93 or for each year that the body or agency has been in existence; [18486.1

(3) how many times in each year since 1992–93 his Department has written to an hon. or right hon. Member correcting an answer to a parliamentary question; [18484]

(4) how many times in each year since 1992–93 his Department has given a reply to a parliamentary question which has resulted in the information requested being placed in the Library and not printed in the Official Report; [18483]

(5) how many parliamentary questions to his Department were transferred for answer to the chief executive or other senior official of a non-departmental public body or agency for which he has responsibility in each year since 1992–93 or for each year that the body or agency has been in existence; [18485]

(6) how many parliamentary questions requesting an ordinary written answer were received by his Department in each year since 1992–93; and how many such questions received a substantive answer within 10, 15, 20 days or longer. [18481]