Written Questions

(asked on 5th September 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of named day written questions were answered by his Department within the prescribed period in the (a) 2012-13 session, (b) 2013-14 session and (c) 2014-15 session to date.


Answered by
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Dan Poulter
This question was answered on 10th September 2014

Departmental performance information, for ordinary and named day Parliamentary Questions, is collated by the Office of the Leader of the House of Commons and submitted to the Procedure Committee. This is published on a sessional basis by the committee, and includes evidence regarding departmental performance. The monitoring report relating to the 2012-13 session was published on 13 February 2014 as HC1046. The report covering statistics relating to performance during the 2013-14 session will be published very shortly by the Procedure Committee.

In the 2014-15 session, as of 5 September, the Department has received 463 named day questions and answered 460 on the date named for answer or 99% on deadline.

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