§ Dr. WrightTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if answers sent to hon. Members in reply to parliamentary questions by the head of executive agencies in her Department are(a) seen, (b) approved and (c) amended by her before they are sent; and if she will identify such letters to which amendments by her have been made in 1994–95. [7838]
§ Mr. ForthThe Department has two executive agencies—the Employment Service and the Teachers' Pensions Agency. Parliamentary questions are passed to the head of the relevant executive agency for reply when the matter is one delegated to him or her under the agency framework document. The relevant Minister may see a copy of the reply before it is sent, but would not normally intervene in operational matters.
No such answers were amended by Ministers in 1994–95.