Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Written Questions
(asked on 9th May 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, how many and what proportion of named day written parliamentary questions have been answered after the specified date by each Minister in his Department since May 2015.
In an oral evidence session to the House of Commons Procedure Committee on 27th April it was noted by the Minister for Sport that though the department had experienced a dip in its performance for timeliness of answers to written questions since May 2015, there has also been a significant improvement in performance in recent months.
The Table shows Named Day responses from 27th May 2015 to 29th April 2016:
Minister | Named Day Questions answered | Number of Late Named Day Questions |
The Minister for Culture | 321 | 146 |
The Minister for Sport | 109 | 30 |