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Written Question
Written Questions
Monday 23rd June 2014

Asked by: Alison Seabeck (Labour - Plymouth, Moor View)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how many parliamentary questions tabled to his Department in the last parliamentary Session did not receive a substantive answer by the time of the 2014 prorogation; and when each such question was first tabled.

Answered by David Lidington

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office received 2,331 Commons written questions in the 2013/14 session. All received a substantive answer before Prorogation. Questions tabled just before Prorogation, which had invalid notice periods, were not able to be answered.

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 May 2010
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