HC Deb 26 March 2001 vol 365 c489W
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to her answer of 19 March 2001,Official Report, column 80W, how many letters from hon. Members did not receive substantive replies within nine months during the last three years. [155097]

Marjorie Mowlam

This information is not held centrally and can be obtained only at disproportionate cost. However, a number of individual Departments do collect this information for their own records.

I can confirm that, so far this year, the Cabinet Office has had only two late replies. Both of these were replied to within one and a half months of receipt.