Ministry of Defence: Correspondence

(asked on 20th May 2020) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average length of time was for Ministers of his Department to respond to correspondence from hon. Members in each month in the last two years.


Answered by
Johnny Mercer Portrait
Johnny Mercer
Minister of State (Cabinet Office) (Minister for Veterans' Affairs)
This question was answered on 8th June 2020

This information is not held in the format requested. In line with Cabinet Office guidance, the Ministry of Defence has a target of responding within 20 working days where a response is required. We also ensure that urgent cases raised by hon. Members are prioritised and take steps to provide substantive responses in as short a time as possible. All correspondence received from hon. Members is reviewed and responded to as soon as possible. Statistics for each month since May 2018 are included in the table below:

Date

Pieces of correspondence from Parliamentarians due for response

Response sent on time

May 2018

190

183

June 2018

208

203

July 2018

248

246

August 2018

218

214

September 2018

169

166

October 2018

164

161

November 2018

202

201

December 2018

204

200

January 2019

176

176

February 2019

180

180

March 2019

184

183

April 2019

239

236

May 2019

200

199

June 2019

203

202

July 2019

233

233

August 2019

205

200

September 2019

172

169

October 2019

195

192

November 2019

212

207

December 2019

72

67

January 2020

44

43

February 2020

183

178

March 2020

216

204

April 2020

190

167

Total

4,507

4,410

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