HC Deb 18 March 2002 vol 382 cc40-1W
Tom Brake

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, pursuant to his answer of 4 March, Official Report, column 91W, on research documentation, for what reason the Department does not hold this information centrally. [42305]

Mr. Jamieson

The information is not currently available centrally without disproportionate cost because responsibility for DTLR research is devolved to individual policy areas and programmes are not managed centrally. However, the Department is developing a central research database facility which is currently being populated with data. This should enable more information on research to be made available from a central source in future.