Asked by: Hilary Benn (Labour - Leeds Central)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of named day written questions were answered by the Law Officers' Departments within the prescribed period in the (a) 2012-13 session, (b) 2013-14 session and (c) 2014-15 session to date.
Answered by Robert Buckland
The information requested is contained in the following table.
Year | Number | Proportion answered on the named day |
2012-13 | 116 | 99% |
2013-14 | 129 | 91% |
2014-15 (To date) | 30 | 90% |
Departmental performance information, for ordinary and named day Parliamentary Questions, is collated by the Office of the Leader of the House of Commons and submitted to the Procedure Committee. This is published on a sessional basis by the committee, and includes evidence regarding departmental performance. The monitoring report relating to the 2012-13 session was published on 13 February 2014 as HC1046. The report covering statistics relating to performance during the 2013-14 session will be published very shortly by the Procedure Committee.