Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:33 pm on 16 March 2011.
Ian Mearns
Labour, Gateshead
12:33,
16 March 2011
Following the point of order made by my hon. Friend Mr Wright yesterday, and the response from the Deputy Leader of the House later in the day, I received a letter from the Minister of State, Department for Education, Mr Gibb outlining the reasons for the delay in answering questions. However, I find it a little incredible that a whole Department and its IT tracking device should find it more difficult to track the 563 unanswered questions than I do as an individual Member of Parliament. That seems to contradict somewhat the evidence given to the Education Committee a number of weeks ago by Lord Hill, who said that the Department was aware of delays in answering questions.
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