Question

To ask the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney, representing the House of Commons Commission, pursuant to the Answer of 5 June 2025 to Question 54918 on Written Questions, how many and what proportion of those carded written parliamentary questions (a) were tabled after amendment, (b) were withdrawn by hon. Members and (c) remain carded.

The figures supplied in my earlier answer were obtained by establishing how many card e-mails were generated by the eQM question management system during the period in question. It is not possible to track individual questions in this way, so I am unable to say what proportion of carded questions were subsequently tabled or withdrawn.

Of the 60,136 questions tabled during the period in question, some 2,814 remain carded. Some 3,003 have been withdrawn by hon. Members, including questions that were withdrawn without being carded. It is not possible to establish what proportion of carded questions were subsequently withdrawn.

The Table Office cards questions which do not comply with the House’s rules of order. Most card queries are resolved quickly when the hon. Member who has tabled the question contacts the Table Office to discuss it. Where a question remains carded for a long period of time it is often because the hon. Member concerned has not responded to the card query.