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Departmental Written Questions

Volume 472: debated on Tuesday 4 March 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many written parliamentary questions have been tabled for answer by his Department in Session 2007-08; and what the average number of days taken to answer them has been. (190241)

The number of written parliamentary questions tabled for answer by my Department this Session is 903. This figure includes those written parliamentary questions tabled to the Minister for the Olympics.

Information on the average number of days taken to answer them is not readily available in the format requested and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many and what proportion of parliamentary questions for answer on a named day to his Department received a (a) holding and (b) substantive answer on the named day in each year since 2001. (190284)

DCMS aims to ensure that hon. Members receive a substantive response to their named day question on the named day. Unfortunately, this is not always possible but this Department makes every effort to meet this timescale. The information requested is provided in the following table.

Named day parliamentary questions

(a) Received holding answer

(b) Received substantive answer on named day

Number

Percentage

Number

Percentage

2002

288

52.9

256

47.1

2003

63

42.6

85

57.4

2004

57

29.2

138

70.8

2005

126

44.5

157

55.5

2006

126

28.6

315

71.4

20071

227

47.2

254

52.8

1 Includes named day questions answered by the Minister for the Olympics since June 2007

Source:

Information derived from the DCMS parliamentary questions database.