§ Mr. HarveyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions(a) non-departmental public bodies and (b) executive agencies responsible to his Department have provided answers by letter, with copies to the Library but not published in the Official Report in each of the latest available two years. [3159]
§ Mr. HowardQuestions which refer to the work of non-departmental public bodies responsible to my Department are answered by Home Office Ministers and published in theOfficial Report. Replies to questions which are prepared by the chief executives of Home Office agencies are published in the Official Report, except on those occasions where there is insufficient time to provide the information requested before the House rises for recess. In such cases, the chief executive gives an undertaking in the Official Report to provide an answer by letter, and to place a copy of the letter in the Library. There is no information available on the number of occasions when this procedure has been followed.