§ Mr. BurnsTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what proportion of those named day parliamentary written questions to his Department that received a holding answer between 15 October and 5 November received the substantive answer(a) within three parliamentary days, (b) within seven parliamentary days, (c) within 10 302W parliamentary days, (d) within 15 parliamentary days and (e) over 15 parliamentary days after the holding answer was issued. [13330]
§ Mr. Ingram[pursuant to his reply, 16 November 2001, c. 958W]: The information contained in the table was incorrect. The questions which received a substantive reply, or where an undertaking to write to hon. Members was given, is set out in the table:
Number of parliamentary days Answers Within 3 51 Between 4 and 7 1 Between 8 and 10 0 Between 11 and 15 0 Over 15 1