To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 26 February 2007, Official Report, column 1144W, on the Government Office for London, for what reasons the information requested is not held centrally; and if she will consider the case for holding such information. (132499)

It is not a valuable use of resources to record centrally all the items of business referred to in the earlier question. Since 2002 Government Office for London (GOL) has had a central database which records draft replies produced for Ministers in all sponsoring Departments in response to hon. Members’ letters. This database shows that GOL has dealt with the following number of Ministerial correspondence cases each year since 2002:

There are no plans to record centrally GOL’s direct correspondence with members of the public.