Question reference: S5W-35025
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 5 February 2021
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Current status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 9 February 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what the average time has been since March 2020 to provide substantive responses to written parliamentary questions that have received holding responses.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
The Scottish Government remains committed to answering all parliamentary questions as quickly as possible and within the deadlines agreed with the Parliament. The vast majority of questions continue to be answered on time. The Government produces quarterly statistics, available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre, which show how many parliamentary questions were cleared after the substantive date and those still outstanding at the time of audit.