Responses from Members regarding inadequate
answers to Written Parliamentary Questions (Session 2008-09, P
59)
Email from Rt Hon Mr Greg Knight MP, Chairman,
to all Members of Parliament
In connection with its continuing inquiry into
Written Parliamentary Questions, the Procedure Committee is keen
to explore the incidence of objectively inadequate answers to
WPQs.
We mean by this answers which:
— are significantly late without good
reason,
— do not address all or part of the
question,
— fail to answer on issues which other
departments have answered on,
— give unjustified reasons for a refusal
to answer, or
— refuse to disclose information which
is available under a Freedom of Information request.
We should be very grateful if any Member who
has received answers of these sorts in the last Session (2007-08)
could send details to the Procedure Committee by 30 January
2009.
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