Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what has been the average time taken to respond to public inquiries by her Department in each of the last five years; and whether she plans to introduce measures to improve this

Public inquiries are an important mechanism to allow the Government to learn lessons for the future, and all Government departments take inquiries' recommendations seriously. The department endeavours to provide timely and well considered responses to every public inquiry and their recommendations. Data on the average time taken to respond is not held centrally.