HC Deb 05 November 2002 vol 392 c164W
Miss McIntosh

To ask the President of the Council, pursuant to his answer of 15 November 2001,Official Report, column 871W, if he will make a statement on the printing of answers to questions during the summer recess in a special edition of the Official Report; and what plans he has to repeat the exercise. [79555]

Mr. Robin Cook

The hon. Lady will recall that I welcomed her suggestion that answers normally given by letter during a recess should be printed in a special edition of theOfficial Report.

I am pleased to report that during the period of the summer recess, the Government answered a total of 1,418 questions, all of which were printed in Hansard for the convenience of all Members of the House.

I propose that, even with September sittings, we should continue this new system. [79555]