HC Deb 25 July 2000 vol 354 c569W
Mr. Maclennan

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many of the written parliamentary questions tabled to his Department between 19 October 1999 and 20 April 2000 have not received substantive answers, citing as the reason that the information is(a) not held centrally, (b) not held in the form requested and (c) not available. [127435]

Mr. Mandelson

The information for the period requested is as follows:

  1. (a) 0; one partial answer
  2. (b) 0; 13 partial answers
  3. (c) 2; 11 partial answers.

Mr. Stunell

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many written parliamentary questions were tabled to his Department between 19 October 1999 and 20 April; and how many have not received substantive answers, with disproportionate cost cited as the reason. [131222]

Mr. Mandelson

Of the 564 written parliamentary questions tabled between this period, 10 did not receive a substantive answer with disproportionate costs cited as the reason, and a further 12 received only a partial reply.