HC Deb 18 July 2000 vol 354 c162W
Mr. Stunell

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, how many of the written parliamentary questions tabled to his Department between 19 October 1999 and 20 April did not receive substantive answers, citing as the reason that the information was(a) not held centrally, (b) not held in the form requested and (c) not available. [131198]

Mr. Lock

According to departmental records of the relevant period:

  1. (a) four parliamentary questions did not receive substantive answers because the information was not held centrally and a further 12 received partial answers for this reason;
  2. (b) one parliamentary question did not receive a substantive answer because the information was not held in the form requested and a further two received partial answers for this reason; and
  3. (c) five parliamentary questions did not receive a substantive answer because the information was not available and a further four received partial answers for this reason.