Home Office written question – answered at on 8 November 2016.
David Winnick
Labour, Walsall North
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many named day written questions have not been answered with a substantive reply (a) on the day in question and (b) up to 4 days later than that day in the last six months.
Sarah Newton
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
The House of Commons Procedure Committee publishes official statistics regarding departmental PQ performance for each Parliamentary session.
The most recent reports can be found here:
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/procedure/Procedure-Committee-HC191-data-departmental-performance.pdf
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