Today’s Procedure Committee on DfE Poor Performance at Parliamentary Questions (23rd January 2013)
23rd January 2013
In December the Procedures Committee asked Ministers to attend a meeting where they reviewed the fact that the DfE were answering only 7% of Parliamentary written questions on-time.
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