How many substantive answers to written questions each minister (a) gave in session one and (b) has given in session two and what the avera…

The number of substantive answers to written questions by each minister in session one and two is given in the Audit of Written Scottish Parliamentary Questions copies of which are available in the Parliament’s Reference Centre. Details of those publications and their Bib. numbers are given in the following table.
The information requested about the average number of working days for the provision of such answers by each minister has not been held centrally since the Audit of Scottish Parliamentary Questions: May 1999-January 2000 which gives the average number of weeks taken to reply (rounded to the nearest whole week).
Title
| Year
| Annex or Appendix
| Bib. Number.

Audit of Scottish parliamentary questions: May 1999 to January 2000
| 1999
| Appendix 5
| 7213

Audit of written Scottish parliamentary questions: January to June 2000
| 2000
| Annex 6
| 9564

Audit of written Scottish parliamentary questions: 1 July to 30 September 2000
| 2000
| Annex 5
| 13150

Audit of written Scottish parliamentary questions: 1 October to 31 December 2000
| 2000
| Annex 5
| 16087

Audit of written Scottish parliamentary questions: 1 January to 31st March 2001
| 2001
| Annex 5
| 15927

Audit of written Scottish parliamentary questions: 1 April to 30 June 2001
| 2001
| Annex 5
| 17443

Audit of written Scottish parliamentary questions: 1 July to 30 September 2001
| 2001
| Annex 5
| 18627

Audit of written Scottish parliamentary questions: 1 October to 31 December 2001
| 2001
| Annex 5A
| 22244

Audit of written Scottish parliamentary questions: 1 January to 31 March 2002
| 2002
| Annex 5
| 24761

Audit of written Scottish parliamentary questions: 1 April to 30 June 2002
| 2002
| Annex 5
| 25323

Audit of written Scottish parliamentary questions: 1 July to 30 September 2002
| 2002
| Annex 5
| 25930

Audit of written Scottish parliamentary questions: 1 October to 31 December 2002
| 2002
| Annex 5
| 27278

Audit of written Scottish parliamentary questions: 1 January to 31 March 2003
| 2003
| Annex 5
| 28176

Audit of written Scottish parliamentary questions: April to June 2003
| 2003
| Annex 4
| 33394

Audit of written Scottish parliamentary questions: July to September 2003
| 2003
| Annex 4
| 31069

Audit of written Scottish parliamentary questions: October to December 2003
| 2003
|