Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, 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.
As of 20 December, the Department has answered approximately 350 written parliamentary questions explaining that the requested information was not either wholly or partially available on the grounds of it not being collected or held centrally. This is out of a total of 3,831 parliamentary questions that have been answered.