To ask the Prime Minister pursuant to the answer of 26 February 2008, Official Report, column 1343W, on efficiency in public services review: written questions, what assessment he has made of the compliance of (a) the Home Office, (b) the Ministry of Defence and (c) other Government departments with the guidance to officials on drafting answers to parliamentary questions in responding to parliamentary questions on redundancies and related costs arising from the conclusions of the Gershon Review; and if he will make a statement. (191517)

All Departments, including the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office, publish performance against their Gershon targets in detail in their annual reports. Copies of these reports and further mid-year departmental reports are available in the Libraries of the House.