Home Department written question – answered at on 10 December 2001.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of parliamentary questions replied to by his Department were the subject of a holding answer in the last three Sessions of Parliament.
In the last three parliamentary Sessions, 4,749 named day parliamentary questions (the only type for which holding replies are used) have been tabled to the Home Office. Of these, 1,015—or 21 per cent.—were given a holding answer. The figures for each session are given in the table.
Session | Percentage of answers given holding replies |
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1998–99 | 15 |
1999–2000 | 21 |
2000–01 | 30 |
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