Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many times his Department has transferred (a) a Written Parliamentary Question and (b) an Oral Parliamentary Question to a different Department since July 2017.

As of 11 January 2019, Departmental records indicate that since 1 July 2017 (a) 473 written parliamentary questions and (b) 8 Oral Parliamentary Questions, tabled to my Department by Members of both Houses, for which a different answering body was responsible, were transferred to the correct answering body.