§ Mr. ForthTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 5 March 2002,Official Report, column 192W, on parliamentary questions, what changes he has made to the system for ministerial responsibility for answering questions, with special reference to clearing the backlog of unanswered questions. [42908]
§ Mr. MilburnSubject to a final audit against theOfficial Report, all outstanding questions that were due for reply by the Department before 14 February have now received responses. Since 5 March we have received 453 parliamentary questions and answered over 700.
The investigation into the circumstances of the apparent systematic falsification of the record management system in the parliamentary section is under way; and I will report to Parliament on the outcome as soon as possible.