Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what proportion of (a) ordinary and (b) named-day written questions their Department answered on time in 2022.

The House of Commons Procedure Committee publishes statistics on Written Parliamentary Questions (WPQs) on a sessional basis, with the most recent data on departmental answering performance published in July 2022. The Procedure Committee’s most recent report on performance notes that, in the 2021-22 session of Parliament, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) answered 91% of ordinary questions, and 90% of named day questions, on time.

Data provided by the House of Commons Table Office shows that between 4 January and 26 April 2022, DCMS answered 90% of ordinary WPQs, and 89% of named day WPQs, on time. Between 10 May and 21 July 2022, these figures were 81% and 89% respectively.

Statistics for the remainder of 2022 have not yet been provided by the Table Office.