Speeches

Jim Cunningham – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Cunningham on 2016-04-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of named day written parliamentary questions have been answered after the specified date by each Minister in her Department since May 2015.

Nick Gibb

The Department for Education received 787 named-day written parliamentary questions that were due for answer between 1 May 2015 and 28 April 2016. Of these, 675 (86%) received responses on the specified date, 107 (14%) received replies after their specified date and 5 (1%) had passed their specified date and were still awaiting a response when this data was compiled on 3 May 2016. [1]

The breakdown by answering minister for the above period was as follows:

Answering minister

Number of named-day PQs due for reply

Number and % answered after the named day

Edward Timpson

302

43 (14%)

Nick Boles

35

8 (23%)

Nick Gibb

284

41 (14%)

Nicky Morgan

1

0 (0%)

Sam Gyimah

165

15 (9%)

Total

787

107 (14%)

[1] These percentages do not add up to 100% due to rounding.