The text on this page has been created from Hansard archive content, it may contain typographical errors.
Mr. Allen
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment in respect of how many parliamentary questions a substantive answer was not provided by her Department wholly or partly on the grounds of disproportionate cost in each of the last 18 months (a) in total and (b) as a proportion of questions answered.
Mr. McLoughlin
[holding answer 17 May 1993]: The figures for parliamentary questions not answered wholly on the grounds of disproportionate cost, in each of the last 18 months, are given in the following table:
| Month | Number |
| 1991 | |
| November | 0 |
| December | 1 |
| 1992 | |
| January | 0 |
| February | 0 |
| March | 1 |
| April | 0 |
| May | 1 |
| June | 0 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 0 |
| September | 0 |
| October | 0 |
| November | 8 |
| December | 8 |
| 1993 | |
| January | 0 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 1 |
| Total | 27 |
This represents less than 1 per cent. of all parliamentary questions asked in the same period.
The figure for parliamentary questions where a substantive answer was not provided partly on the grounds of disproportionate cost is not recorded.