HC Deb 02 July 2002 vol 388 c253W
Mr. Simon Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many oral questions she has transferred to other departments in each of the last 18 months. [65509]

Mr. Morley

DEFRA was created in June 2001, and since then the number of oral questions transferred to other Government Departments in each month is shown in the following table.

Number of oral questions transferred
June 2001 6
October 2001 7
November 2001 2
December 2001 3
January 2002 2
March 2002 2
April 2002 0
May 2002 3
June 2002 1
Total 26