Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, 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.
In the 2017-18 session to 19 December, the Ministry of Defence answered 1,266 written parliamentary questions. Of those, 55 answers (4.3%) explained that the requested information was not available on the grounds of it not being collected or held centrally. Of those, 25 answers (2%) provided some or most of the information requested.