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Mr. Parry
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what has been the average time in the current Session before hon. Members have received replies to letters addressed to his Department.
Mr. Heseltine
No distinction is made in our records between letters from hon. Members and other correspondence receiving a ministerial reply. However, samples taken from those records indicate that the average time taken to reply to hon. Members' correspondence in the current Session is approximately three weeks.