Question to the Leader of the House:

To ask the Leader of the House, what assessment he has made of the effect of the creation of the Backbench Business Committee on the work of the House.

I have not made a recent assessment of the effect of the creation of the Backbench Business Committee on the work of the House, but the Government response to the Procedure Committee review, published in February 2013, agreed that the Backbench Business Committee had been 'widely welcomed as a successful and effective innovation'.