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<p>Departmental performance information, for ordinary and named day Parliamentary
Questions, is collated by the Office of the Leader of the House of Commons and submitted
to the Procedure Committee. This is published on a sessional basis by the committee,
and includes evidence regarding departmental performance. The monitoring report relating
to the 2012-13 session was published on 13 February 2014 as HC1046. The report covering
statistics relating to performance during the 2013-14 session will be published very
shortly by the Procedure Committee and will show that, for this Department, 938 of
the 982 named day Parliamentary Questions (96%) received a substantive reply on the
date stipulated by the Member.</p><p>The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
received 172 named day questions of which 151 (88%) were answered within the prescribed
period during June – July 2014.</p>
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