Departmental Written Questions

Richard Younger-Ross
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many and what proportion of parliamentary questions for answer on a named day to his Department received a (a) holding answer and (b) substantive answer on the named day in each year since 2001.

Angela Eagle
The information requested in respect of each parliamentary Session since 2000-01 is given in the table:

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|Session                                                                                         |Named day questions received|Answered substantively on the named day1|Proportion answered substantively on the named day (Percentage)|
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|2000-01                                                                                         |603                         |380                                     |63.0                                                           |
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|2001-02                                                                                         |1,653                       |1,210                                   |73.2                                                           |
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|2002-03                                                                                         |620                         |432                                     |69.7                                                           |
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|2003-04                                                                                         |518                         |387                                     |74.7                                                           |
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|2004-05                                                                                         |287                         |228                                     |79.4                                                           |
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|2005-06                                                                                         |1,029                       |771                                     |74.9                                                           |
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|2006-07                                                                                         |743                         |527                                     |70.9                                                           |
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|2007-082                                                                                        |358                         |183                                     |51.1                                                           |
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|1 All questions not answered substantively on the named day receive a holding answer. 2 To date.|                            |                                        |                                                               |
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