Members: Correspondence

(asked on 3rd February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the length of time taken by his Department to respond to correspondence from hon Members.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 22nd March 2022

The Government attaches great importance to the effective and timely handling of correspondence from hon. Members, either directly or on behalf of their constituents. There has been a high degree of parliamentary interest on delays in response times both to correspondence and written questions across Government, but in particular the Department of Health and Social Care. The Procedure Committee is monitoring the Department’s performance.

We are doing our utmost to reduce the backlog of 3,500 overdue ministerial cases.

Data on the timeliness of responses to correspondence from Parliamentarians is published on GOV.UK, which is available at the following link:

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.

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