Question to the Leader of the House:

To ask the Leader of the House, what steps he is taking to improve the quality of Government responses to e-petitions.

The new e-petitions system has been running for over a year now and the Government is pleased with the level of engagement that it has prompted among the public.

Individual Departments are responsible for the content and timeliness of responses to e-petitions, however the Leader's office has general Government oversight of e-petitions. My predecessor reminded Cabinet colleagues of the importance of quality and timely responses to e-petitions at the beginning of the second session. I will be writing to Cabinet colleagues this week with a similar reminder.