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Departmental Written Questions

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 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. (190279)

The information requested is contained in the following table:

Holding repliesSubstantive replies

Number

Percentage of total

Number

Percentage of total

Total named day questions answered

Total all written questions answered

2001

157

30.7

355

69.3

512

906

2002

522

53.1

461

46.9

983

2,273

2003

154

36.3

270

63.7

424

2,027

2004

153

24.3

476

75.7

629

2,890

2005

221

38.1

359

61.9

580

2,562

2006

340

50.8

329

49.2

669

3,887

2007

421

59.8

283

40.2

704

3,421

Total

1,968

43.7

2,533

56.3

4,501

17,966

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many written questions to his Department had not received an answer as at 25 February 2008 for (a) between two and four, (b) between four and six, (c) between six and eight and (d) more than eight weeks; and how many in each category were tabled for named day answer. (193393)

The information requested is in the following table:

Weeks since question received, as at 25 February 2008

Question type

ordinary

named day

Total

Up to two weeks

120

17

137

Between 2 and 4 weeks

124

13

137

Between 4 and 6 weeks

42

4

46

Between 6 and 8 weeks

16

1

17

More than 8 weeks

30

5

35

Totals

332

40

372