Parliamentary Questions (Hansard, 13 February 2004)

HC Deb 13 February 2004 vol 418 c16W 16W

§ Mr. Brady
To ask the Leader of the House how many days on average his Office took in Session 2002–03 to give a substantive answer to a parliamentary Question for ordinary written answer; and what the greatest number of days taken to answer such a question was. [155926]

§ Mr. Hain
On average, it took my office 2.5 days to give a substantive answer to an ordinary written parliamentary question¹.
The greatest number of days to answer such a question was nine days (excluding recess days).
Performance on handling parliamentary questions is available on the Leader of the Commons website www.commonsleader.gov.uk. ¹Questions tabled during Session 2002–03 included those to the President of the Council