Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government written question – answered at on 11 February 2025.
Dr Caroline Johnson
Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of items of correspondence from Parliamentarians received by (a) her Department, (b) her and (c) her Ministers in each month since August 2024 have not yet received a substantive response.
Alex Norris
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
Since August 2024, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has received 3493 pieces of correspondence from Parliamentarians. The table below shows the number of items received by month (August 2024 – February 2025) that have not yet received a substantive response, and the proportion this represents of the total number of cases responded to, by month. The Majority of cases from January – February are not yet due.
Aug-24 | Sept-24 | Oct-24 | Nov-24 | Dec-24 | Jan-25 | Feb-25* | Total | |
Total | 0 | 7 | 10 | 22 | 117 | 399 | 82 | 637 |
Proportion | 0% | 1% | 1.5% | 3.5% | 22% | 60% | 100% | 18% |
* February data is captured up until 6th February 2025
Yes0 people think so
No1 person thinks not
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Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
The term "majority" is used in two ways in Parliament. Firstly a Government cannot operate effectively unless it can command a majority in the House of Commons - a majority means winning more than 50% of the votes in a division. Should a Government fail to hold the confidence of the House, it has to hold a General Election. Secondly the term can also be used in an election, where it refers to the margin which the candidate with the most votes has over the candidate coming second. To win a seat a candidate need only have a majority of 1.
