Departmental Written Questions Richard Younger-Ross To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many and what proportion of Parliamentary questions for answer on a named day to his Department received an (a) holding and (b) substantive answer on the named day in each year since 2001. Mr. Douglas Alexander Details of named-day parliamentary questions for the 2006-07 parliamentary session and the 2007-08 to date are as follows: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Session |Total named day parliamentary questions|Holding answer issued|Substantive answer by named day| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2006-07 |207 |20 |187 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |2007-081 |105 |16 |89 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |1 As at 29 February.| | | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DFID endeavours to reply to all parliamentary questions within parliamentary deadlines where possible. Details of sessions prior to those aforementioned are not held centrally and obtaining them would involve disproportionate costs.