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Written Question
Attorney General: Written Questions
Thursday 19th January 2023

Asked by: Jessica Morden (Labour - Newport East)

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, what proportion of (a) ordinary and (b) named-day written questions their Department answered on time in 2022.

Answered by Michael Tomlinson - Minister of State (Minister for Illegal Migration)

The proportion of ordinary and named-day written Parliamentary questions answered on time in 2022 by the Attorney General’s Office is given in the following table:

Question Type

Due for Answer

Answered on Time

Named-Day

85

72 (85%)

Ordinary Written

165

135 (82%)

Total

250

The figures quoted in this answer are internal statistics compiled by the Attorney General’s Office. The official statistics will be published by the Table Office in the usual way.


Written Question
Attorney General: Correspondence and Written Questions
Thursday 10th November 2022

Asked by: Jessica Morden (Labour - Newport East)

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, what steps their Department is taking to reduce the time taken to respond to (a) written parliamentary questions and (b) correspondence from Members of Parliament.

Answered by Michael Tomlinson - Minister of State (Minister for Illegal Migration)

All government departments have access to regular training led by the Parliamentary Capability Team through the Government Campus. The Attorney General’s Office attaches great importance to the effective and timely handling of Parliamentary Questions (PQs) and correspondence and remains committed to providing the highest level of service. Between the period of May to July inclusive, the Attorney General’s Office answered 74% of written Parliamentary Questions on time. For the same period, 97% of all Ministerial correspondence was answered on time.


Written Question
Attorney General: Correspondence
Monday 7th February 2022

Asked by: Jessica Morden (Labour - Newport East)

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, what the average response time was for her Department to respond to an enquiry from an MP once an enquiry had been received by the MP (a) hotline and (b) account management team in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021.

Answered by Alex Chalk - Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice

The Government attaches great importance to the effective and timely handling of correspondence from MPs, either directly or on behalf of their constituents.

The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) does not have an MP hotline. Correspondence from MPs is monitored alongside that received from Peers and members of devolved assemblies by the AGO Correspondence Team.

The AGO Correspondence Team does not hold information on the average response time to enquiries from MPs, as correspondence performance is monitored by the percentage of correspondence responded to within the target response time set by the Department. For AGO this is 20 working days.

Data on the timeliness of responses to correspondence from MPs and Peers for 2019 and 2020 is published on Gov.uk here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/data-on-responses-to-correspondence-from-mps-and-peers. Data for 2021 will be published by the Cabinet Office in due course.


Written Question
Domestic Abuse
Tuesday 22nd December 2020

Asked by: Jessica Morden (Labour - Newport East)

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, what steps she is taking to support the criminal justice system's ability to prosecute perpetrators of coercive and controlling behaviour.

Answered by Michael Ellis

This Government and the Crown Prosecution Service take cases of domestic abuse extremely seriously.

Since the introduction of the Serious Crime Act 2015, which created an offence of coercive and controlling behaviour, the number of domestic abuse prosecutions have increased.

The CPS has developed an ambitious twelve-month programme of work to help narrow the disparity between domestic abuse reporting and criminal justice outcomes, including, sharing best practice and revising guidance to support effective case handling of coercive and controlling behaviour crimes.

It is essential that perpetrators, victims and their families know and understand that the criminal justice system remains open and is prioritising cases with high risk domestic abuse victims.