Department for Education: Written Questions
(asked on 12th January 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) ordinary and (b) named-day written questions their Department answered on time in 2022.
This question was answered on 20th January 2023
The Department attaches great importance to the effective and timely handling of correspondence from Members of Parliament, including written parliamentary questions. The below table provides the proportion of (a) ordinary and (b) named day written parliamentary questions answered by the Department in 2022.
PQ type | Answered | Answered on time |
PQ-Ordinary | 2,649 | 2131 (77%) |
PQ-Named | 1,217 | 939 (80%) |
Total | 3,866 | 3,070 (79%) |