Thursday 21 July 2005


Mr Paul Burstow (Sutton & Cheam): To ask the Leader of the House, how many letters to his Office from honourable Members in session (a) 2004-05 and (b) 2005-06 remain unanswered, broken down by those  which are (i) one month old, (ii) two months old, (iii) three months old, (iv) four months old and (v) over six months old.


Geoff Hoon:

No letters to my Office from hon. Members for the session 2004-05 remain unanswered, and 94 per cent of letters requiring a reply were answered within our target of 15 working days.

For the current session 10 letters remain unanswered which are under one month old. We expect to answer these within our 15 working day target.