Department for Education: Correspondence
(asked on 4th February 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of items of correspondence from Parliamentarians received by (a) her Department, (b) herself and (c) her ministerial team have not received a substantive response in each month since August 2024.
The total number of cases received by the department since August 2024 that are due for reply but have yet to receive a substantive response is 31.
The breakdown is as follows:
Parliamentary cases that have not yet had a substantive reply | ||||||
Month Received | Secretary of State for Education | Ministerial Team | Department | |||
| Volume | % | Volume | % | Volume | % |
August 2024 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% |
September 2024 | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% |
October 2024 | 1 | 2.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 1 | 0.2% |
November 2024 | 1 | 1.8% | 3 | 0.5% | 4 | 0.7% |
December 2024 | 3 | 6.7% | 12 | 2.2% | 15 | 2.5% |
January 2025 | 1 | 4.8% | 10 | 5.6% | 11 | 5.6% |
Total | 6 | 2.0% | 25 | 0.9% | 31 | 1.0% |