Departmental Written Questions

David Simpson
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the answer of 10 February 2010, Official Report, column 1117W, on departmental written questions, whether his Department maintains a database to monitor the progress of replies to parliamentary questions.

Mr. McFadden
Yes. The Department uses the database to monitor performance in answering parliamentary questions and will use it to produce published reports to Parliament in due course.