§ Mr. SteinbergTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make it his policy that he and his Ministers personally read the letters sent to them by hon. Members on constituency matters. [27668]
§ Mr. SpellarIt has been the policy of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and his Ministers to read personally, letters from hon. Members on constituency matters. Where, however, the matter is the responsibility of a Chief Executive of a Defence Agency, the letters are transferred to him to reply to the hon. Member.
Hon. Members, nevertheless, retain the right at any time to ask for a Minister to deal with the correspondence.