Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many parliamentary questions tabled to his Department in the last parliamentary Session did not receive a substantive answer by the time of the 2014 prorogation; and when each such question was first tabled.

The Department received 5,201 written questions in the 2013-14 parliamentary session. All questions received a substantive answer before the prorogation.