Alison Seabeck – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Leader of the House

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Alison Seabeck on 2014-06-05.

To ask the Leader of the House, how many questions to each department did not receive a substantive answer by the time of prorogation; and how long each question had been waiting for an answer.

Mr Andrew Lansley

This information is not held centrally and would be a matter for the individual departments concerned.

My office collates wider departmental performance information for Ordinary and Named Day Parliamentary Questions, which I submit in relation to each session to the Procedure Committee. Each department is required to set out in its evidence to the Procedure Committee, any factors which have caused delays in answering written questions.

Statistics relating to departmental performance for the 2012/13, 2010/12 and 2009/10 Parliamentary sessions were previously provided to the Committee and are available on the Parliament website. I expect to provide data for the last Parliamentary session shortly.