Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Written Questions

(asked on 12th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of (a) ordinary and (b) named-day written questions their Department answered on time in 2022.


Answered by
Kevin Hollinrake Portrait
Kevin Hollinrake
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 20th January 2023

The Procedure Committee publishes data on departmental answering performance for Ordinary and Named Day written questions at the end of each session - https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmproced/385/report.html

The Second Report of Session 2022-23 reports that BEIS received 2,326 ordinary written questions in the 2021-22 session, 2,032 of which (87%) were answered substantively within 5 working days; and 1,721 named day questions, 1,462 of which (85%) were answered on the named day.

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