Parliamentary Questions

HC Deb 07 January 2003 vol 397 cc166-7W

Norman Lamb

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what plans he has to improve his targets for responding to Named Day Parliamentary questions. [89322]

John Healey

An increasing proportion of Named Day Parliamentary questions was answered on time by the Treasury in each session since PSA targets were introduced in 1998–99, as the table shows:

	Percentage answered on time
1998–99	35.3
1999–2000	59.4
2000–1	63.0
2001–2	73.2

71.1 per cent. of Named Day questions have been answered on the nominated day in the 2002–3 session to date.