Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the savings to her Department from the Q&A system in the (a) 12 months and (b) five years since 4 June 2014; what additional ICT systems or improvements to existing systems her Department has introduced or plans to introduce that would not have been feasible without the Q&A system; and what assessment she has made of the extent to which the system has made it easier to answer questions from hon. Members on time.

The Home Department has made savings in relation to stationery costs and the time taken to produce answers to Parliamentary Questions associated with the previous system.

The Q&A system has improved efficiency in the administrative processing of answers to Parliamentary Questions.

It will be for the Procedure Committee to evaluate the effectiveness of the new system in improving performance when it assesses the evidence following the end of the session.