§ Mrs. ClwydTo ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage how many questions were tabled from reply by her Department in each Session since 1979–80; in how many instances in each year the reply has been that providing the information involved disproportionate cost; and in how many instances in each year questions have been given the reply that the information was not available centrally. [16793]
§ Mr. SproatThe Department of National Heritage was established in April 1992.
The available figures for the number of questions answered by my Department in each parliamentary Session are as follows:
Session Number of questions answered 1992–93 1,281 1993–94 1,099 1994–95 1,226 1995–96 1,124 Source:
POLIS.
The rest of the information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.