Departmental Written Questions

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many and what proportion of Parliamentary questions for answer on a named day to her Department and its predecessors received a (a) holding and (b) substantive answer on the named day in each year since 2001. (190283)

The information in respect of Communities and Local Government (CLG) and its predecessor Department the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) is set out as follows:

*Holding answersSubstantive answers*
	Department	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage
2002¹	ODPM	93	29	230	71
2003	ODPM	62	17	308	83
2004	ODPM	64	13	428	87
2005	ODPM	122	25	371	75
2006	ODPM/CLG	228	42	315	58
2007	CLG	345	51	335	49
¹ 29 May to 31 December 2002

Volume 472: debated on Wednesday 27 February 2008