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<p>As outlined in the ‘<a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/504396/Cabinet_Office_Guidance_on_correspondence_-_March_2016.pdf"
target="_blank">Guidance for Handling Correspondence</a>’, correspondence to Ministers
from hon. Members should be signed off at an appropriate equivalent ministerial level.
Where an MP has written about the day-to-day operations of an Executive Agency or
a Non-Departmental Public Body, the appropriate Chief Executive may reply.</p><p>Official
replies to letters from MPs should only be authorised in some circumstances, for example,
when dealing with a large volume of letters on the same issue which would lead to
an improvement in departmental performance handling or that it has been decreed that
under certain circumstances an official reply would be more appropriate.</p><p> </p>
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