Written questions

Written Questions: Government Responses

Lords · Question HL11613 · Tabled 4 Nov 2025 · Leader of the House of Lords · Official record

Answered 14 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Lord Roberts of Llandudno

To ask the Leader of the House what monitoring process is in place to ensure that responses to Written Questions answer the question that has been asked.

Answer

Answered by Baroness Smith of Basildon, 14 Nov 2025

As Leader I regularly remind Ministers of the importance of timely and accurate answers to written questions. I have met the working group of departmental Parliamentary Clerks and am scheduled to meet separately Permanent Secretaries next week to stress t...