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Mr. Allen
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security in respect of how many parliamentary questions a substantive answer was not provided by his Department wholly or partly on the ground of disproportionate cost in each of the last 18 months (a) in total and (b) as a proportion of questions answered.
Miss Widdecombe
The information is in the table.
| Number of PQs | Disproportionate cost replies | Percentage | |
| November 1991 | 312 | 14 | 4 |
| December 1991 | 255 | 4 | 2 |
| January 1992 | 219 | 14 | 6 |
| February 1992 | 272 | 12 | 4 |
| March 1992 | 211 | 5 | 2 |
| April 1992 | — | — | — |
| May 1992 | 167 | 1 | 0·5 |
Number of PQs
| Disproportionate cost replies
| Percentage
| |
| June 1992 | 378 | 13 | 3 |
| July 1992 | 361 | 11 | 3 |
| August 1992 | — | — | — |
| September 1992 | — | — | — |
| October 1992 | 263 | 7 | 3 |
| November 1992 | 326 | 8 | 2 |
| December 1992 | 162 | 3 | 2 |
| Janaury 1993 | 279 | 14 | 5 |
| February 1993 | 209 | 9 | 4 |
| March 1993 | 292 | 12 | 4 |
| April 1993 | 200 | 7 | 3 |
| Total | 3,906 | 134 | 3 |