In a written reply at a court hearing, the interim government said that its mandate was limited to organising elections and tackling the security threats in the run-up to the polls.

BBC: Asia

"Individual Government Departments are responsible for taking decisions on the goods and services they acquire, taking into account the Government's policy of seeking value for money for the benefit of the taxpayer, " he said in a Commons written reply.

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Junior health minister Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, in a written Parliamentary reply, said there was no centrally held information on the number of haemophiliacs who received clotting factor made from plasma donated by the donor.

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He promised to provided a written House of Lords reply to the peers' concerns.

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The news came on Thursday in reply to a written assembly question from UUP agriculture spokeswoman Jo-Anne Dobson.

BBC: Northern Ireland

Plaid Cymru AM Simon Thomas argued against a written response from the government in reply to ESTYN's report and called for action instead.

BBC: Debate on the ESTYN report

Speaking to the BBC News website, Balding revealed she had written to the newspaper's editor John Witherow, receiving what she deemed an unsatisfactory reply.

BBC: Clare Balding complains over paper's sexuality comment

He said that he had written a personal letter to Bush after the debate asking for an apology but had not received a reply.

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He has written to the public prosecutor in Rhodes to find out the exact charge he faces but has had no reply so far.

BBC: Norwich driver faces Rhodes trial five years after crash

Her defense: She repeatedly had written the IRS asking for an explanation of the agency's authority to collect taxes from her and received no reply.

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