HC Deb 14 July 1999 vol 335 c253W
Mr. Brady

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many parliamentary questions were tabled to his Department for written answer on a named day between May 1997 and 14 April 1999; and what percentage of them received a substantive response on that named day. [91066]

Mr. Tony Lloyd

2,351 parliamentary questions have been tabled to the FCO for named day answer since 2 May 1997. Our existing database does not allow us to determine which of them received a substantive response on that named day without manually checking each question. To do so would incur disproportionate cost.