§ Mr. DonohoeTo ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage how many questions were tabled to her Department in each Session since 1987–88; how many were not answered on the grounds of disproportionate cost; what percentage of the total number of questions this represented; how many were not answered on the grounds that the information was not centrally available; and what percentage of the total number of questions this represented. [21151]
§ Mr. SproatThe Department of National Heritage was established in April 1992.
The available figures for the number of questions tabled to my Department in each parliamentary Session are as follows:
Session Number of questions tabled 1992–93 1,281 1993–94 1,099 1994–95 1,226 1995–961 516 1 To 20 March 1996. These figures have been produced from POLIS database the—the parliamentary online information system.
The rest of the information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.