Departmental Public Information Line

HC Deb 24 January 2000 vol 343 c78W

Mrs. Gillan

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many calls were made to her Department's public information line in(a) 1997–98 and (b) 1998–99. [106337]

Clare Short

In 1997–98 our Public Inquiry Point received 2,410 telephone calls. In 1998–99 this rose to around 5,400.