Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what proportion of correspondence sent by hon. Members to his Department received a substantive response with the service standard in each month of (a) 2018, (b) 2019 and (c) 2020.
The Government recognises the great importance of effective and timely handling of Ministerial correspondence.
The Cabinet Office is currently compiling data on the timeliness of responses to Parliamentarians from Government Departments and Agencies. This data will be released, and made available to Members, in due course.