Wales written question – answered at on 9 November 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales
(1) how many written parliamentary questions to his Department received a substantive answer (a) within five working days, (b) between six and 10 working days and (c) after more than 10 working days in the last 12 months for which figures are available;
(2) how many and what proportion of written parliamentary questions to his Department received holding responses in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
For the period
(a): 322
(b): 22
(c): Nil.
For the same period, my Department received and answered 47 named day parliamentary questions, of which two (4%) received a holding reply.
The Government have committed to providing the Procedure Committee with information relating to written parliamentary question performance on a sessional basis and will provide full information to the Committee at the end of the current Session. Statistics relating to performance for the 2010-12 parliamentary session are available on the Parliament website at:
Yes2 people think so
No0 people think not
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