Department for Education: Written Questions
(asked on 29th April 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of named day written parliamentary questions have been answered after the specified date by each Minister in her Department since May 2015.
The Department for Education received 787 named-day written parliamentary questions that were due for answer between 1 May 2015 and 28 April 2016. Of these, 675 (86%) received responses on the specified date, 107 (14%) received replies after their specified date and 5 (1%) had passed their specified date and were still awaiting a response when this data was compiled on 3 May 2016. [1]
The breakdown by answering minister for the above period was as follows:
Answering minister | Number of named-day PQs due for reply | Number and % answered after the named day |
Edward Timpson | 302 | 43 (14%) |
Nick Boles | 35 | 8 (23%) |
Nick Gibb | 284 | 41 (14%) |
Nicky Morgan | 1 | 0 (0%) |
Sam Gyimah | 165 | 15 (9%) |
Total | 787 | 107 (14%) |
[1] These percentages do not add up to 100% due to rounding.