HC Deb 30 April 2002 vol 384 cc660-1W
Mr. Peter Ainsworth

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment. Food and Rural Affairs if she will list(a) consultation papers, (b) circulars and (c) forms issued to farmers by her Department in the past 12 months. [37532]

Margaret Beckett

As DEFRA was created in June 2001, twelve months have not elapsed yet. The Department lists its print production work using sequential alphanumeric job number/s. To transcribe and list these by title would incur a disproportionate cost.

Our records show that since DEFRA was set up;

  1. (a) 38 consultation papers were issued.
  2. (b) 418 items categorised as circulars/information literature documents were produced.
  3. (c) 225 forms targeted at farmers and ancillary organisations were produced.