Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many written parliamentary questions to his Department remained unanswered when Parliament prorogued on 26 October 2023.

There were two written parliamentary questions where the department was unable to provide a substantive answer before Prorogation. The following questions received the standard Prorogation response: 203976 and HL10597.

Hl10597 was answered substantively by letter, as is protocol.