§ Norman BakerTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many parliamentary questions have been tabled to her Department since 1 January 2003, broken down by(a) ordinary written and (b) named day; what precentage in respect of (a) were answered within 10 working days; and what percentage in respect of (b) were answered by the specified date. [157516]
§ Alun Michaelrecords for session 2002–03 were not maintained in such a way to enable the Department to extract the information requested without incurring disproportionate costs.
However, according to our records Defra received a total of 5.444 parliamentary questions broken down as follows:
- a. 3,836 were ordinary written;
- b. 851 were named day.
To date, in the current parliamentary session we have received a total of 1,784 parliamentary questions, broken down as follows:
Defra endeavours to reply to all parliamentary questions within parliamentary deadlines wherever possible.
- a. 1,104 were ordinary written, of which 923 were answered within 10 working days which equates to 83.6 per cent;
- b. 190 were named day and 42 were answered on the specified date which equates to 22.1 per cent.