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<p>As Leader of the House, I am responsible for encouraging departments to give timely
answers to Questions for Written Answer (QWAs), a duty I take very seriously.</p><p><strong>
</strong></p><p>The House has set out clearly (most recently in agreeing the Procedure
Committee’s 5th Report on the 2014-5 Session) that all answers to QWAs should be complete
and comprehensible, and as such should not rely on references to external documents
or webpages. I will continue to make this guidance clear to Ministers. Whilst it is
for individual Ministers to account to the House for the content of the answers they
provide - with Ministers providing personally signed answers to members as part of
this direct accountability - any member is welcome to inform me of any particular
concerns about a response they have received.</p><p> </p>
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