§ Mr. CummingsTo as the Secretary of State for Defence on how many occasions in each of the past five years Ministers in his Department have passed(a) hon. Members' letters and (b) hon. Members' questions to agencies for response; and what this figure is as a percentage of the total number of letters and questions received. [19423]
§ Mr. ArbuthnotFor parliamentary questions, I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave the hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire (Mr. Kirkwood) on 14 February 1996,Official Report, column 609.
Information on the number of hon. Members' letters passed to defence agencies to reply is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.