§ Mr. Andrew TurnerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of ordinary written Questions for his Department were answered within a week of tabling in each month since June 2001; and what proportion of questions for named day received a substantive answer on that day in each month since June 2001. [58976]
§ Beverley HughesThe information requested is given in the following table:
Ordinary Written (OW) Cases answered within 7 days of tabling between 1 June 2001 and 25 June 2002 Type Month Total Within 7 Days Percentage OW June 2001 56 37 66.07 July 2001 302 173 57.28 October 2001 314 172 54.78 November 2001 399 165 41.35 December 2001 244 100 40.98 January 2002 464 154 33.19 February 2002 409 145 35.45 March 2002 351 13 3.70 April 2002 492 43 8.74 May 2002 391 121 30.95 June 2002 270 56 20.74 Total 3,692 1,179 31.93
Named Day (ND) Cases answered on nominated day between 1 June 2001 and 30 June 2002 Type Month Total Within 7 Days Percentage ND June 2001 80 57 72.25 July 2001 192 103 53.65 October 2001 114 45 39.47 November 2001 222 93 41.89 December 2001 99 15 15.15 January 2002 197 38 19.29 February 2002 146 22 15.07 March 2002 160 14 8.75 April 2002 213 16 7.51 May 2002 132 7 5.30 June 2002 109 4 3.67 Total 1,664 414 24.88 The Department recognises that our performance in answering PQs is not as good as it needs to be and we have implemented an action plan to improve the timeliness of our responses to PQs.