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Written Questions: Government Responses

Commons · Question 89020 · Tabled 10 Nov 2025 · Leader of the House · Official record

Answered 18 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Leader of the House, with reference to the Point of Order from the hon. Member for Basildon and Billericay of 29 October 2025, what recent guidance he has sent to Departments on paragraph 221 of the Guide to Parliamentary Work, published in Nov

Answer

Answered by Sir Alan Campbell, 18 Nov 2025

The government's position regarding the relationship between the treatment of requests for information through parliamentary questions and the Freedom of Information Act 2000 - as set out in the Guide to Parliamentary Work - is unchanged.I have written to...