Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many and what proportion of his Department's Answers to Written Parliamentary Questions in the 2017-18 Session to date have referred to the information requested not being (a) collected or (b) collated centrally.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has answered 1675 Written Parliamentary Questions so far this session as of 21^st December. Of these, 4 questions (0.24% of questions asked) have referred to the information not being collected and 3 questions (0.18% of questions asked) have referred to the information not being collated centrally.