Departmental Written Questions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many and what proportion of parliamentary questions for answer on a named day to his Department received a (a) holding answer and (b) substantive answer on the named day in each year since 2001. (190294)

The information requested in respect of each parliamentary Session since 2000-01 is given in the table:

Session	Named day questions received	Answered substantively on the named day¹	Proportion answered substantively on the named day (Percentage)
2000-01	603	380	63.0
2001-02	1,653	1,210	73.2
2002-03	620	432	69.7
2003-04	518	387	74.7
2004-05	287	228	79.4
2005-06	1,029	771	74.9
2006-07	743	527	70.9
2007-08²	358	183	51.1
¹ All questions not answered substantively on the named day receive a holding answer. ² To date.

Volume 472: debated on Wednesday 27 February 2008