Departmental Written Questions

To ask the Leader of the House how many Questions for written answer were tabled to her and her predecessors in Session (a) 2002-03, (b) 2003-04, (c) 2004-05, (d) 2005-06, (e) 2006-07 and (f) 2007-08 to date; and how many were (i) answered substantively and (ii) not answered on grounds of disproportionate cost. (235388)

The information is as follows:

Session	Total number of questions answered	Number of questions where whole or part of the answer could not be provided due to disproportionate cost
2002-03	146	8
2003-04	106	3
2004-05	53	0
2005-06	261	3
2006-07	205	9
2007-08 (to date)	228	11

Volume 483: debated on Tuesday 18 November 2008