Home Office: Written Questions

(asked on 1st September 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

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


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 11th September 2023

The Government attaches great importance to the effective and timely handling of Written Parliamentary Questions.

There are three types of Written Parliamentary Question. The Cabinet Office’s Guide to Parliamentary Work sets out the timelines departments should seek to meet. This can be found here

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1116933/2022-10-11_-_Guide_to_Parliamentary_Work___1_.pdf

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: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cmselect/cmproced/385/report.html

This year's data will be published by the Procedure Committee when the session concludes.

Every effort must be made to reply to Written Parliamentary Questions within the original deadline. However, if the matters raised in the question requiresubstantial investigation, it might not be possible to provide a substantive

reply to a case within the departmental deadline.

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