Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps their Department is taking to improve response times to written parliamentary questions.

The latest official statistics produced by the Table Office are as follows and show that DWP answered the following Parliamentary Questions on time:

Jan 2023 – Mar 2023:

Named Day PQs – 94%

Ordinary Written PQs – 92%

Statistics for April to June 2023 are currently being compiled.

Departmental performance on Written Parliamentary Questions is published at the end of each session by the Procedure Committee and is therefore publicly available. You can find details of the last session's PQ performance here.

The Department continually monitors and looks for ways to improve PQ performance.