§ Mrs. Ann TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment (1) how many parliamentary questions to his Department that 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 received an answer which was not printed in theOfficial Report in each year since 1979–80 or for each year that the body or agency has been in existence; [18546]
(2) 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 1979–80 or for each year that the body or agency has been in existence; [18545]
(3) how many times in each year since 1979–80 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. [18543]
§ Miss WiddecombeThe information requested is a matter of public record but it could be extracted in the form requested only at disproportionate cost.
§ Mrs. Ann TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many parliamentary questions requesting an ordinary written answer were received by his Department in each year since 1979–80; and how many such questions received a substantive answer within 10,15,20 days or longer. [18541]
§ Miss WiddecombeThe information requested is available only from 1 January 1991 and is detailed in the following table:
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Questions answered within (working days) Year Total number of questions for ordinary written reply 10 15 20 20+ 1991 834 824 3 4 3 1992 861 857 2 — 2 1993 966 954 6 3 3 1994 1,090 1,044 21 3 22 19951 470 468 — 1 1 1 Information provided up to and including 6 April 1995.