Question follow-through · 28960

Ministry of Defence: Correspondence

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of items of correspondence from Parliamentarians received by (a) his Department, (b) him and (c) his Ministers in each month since August 2024 have not yet received a substantive resp

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Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Tabled
5 Feb 2025
Target answer date
10 Feb 2025
Answer
10 Feb 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 5 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many and what proportion of items of correspondence from Parliamentarians received by (a) his Department, (b) him and (c) his Ministers in each month since August 2024 have not yet received a substantive resp

  2. 10 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 10 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    We are committed to ensuring Government responses to correspondence are timely, accurate, and high quality. All correspondence from Parliamentarians to the Ministry of Defence (MOD) is processed centrally. Whether an individual item of correspondence was ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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