To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many and what proportion of parliamentary questions for answer on a named day to his Department and its predecessor received an (a) holding and (b) substantive answer on the named day in each year since 2001. (190288)

The information requested is in the following table.

Records have only been available electronically since May 2005. Therefore, information for the former Department for Constitutional Affairs and the Lord Chancellor’s Department prior to May 2005 is not held centrally and could be provided only by manually checking paper records at a disproportionate cost.