A breakdown of parliamentary written questions

To see if Members of Parliament (MPs) always get the information they ask for, Class Notes trawled Parliamentary records from over a year — January 2019 to March 2020 — for the Government’s answers to Written Questions.

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We sorted the questions by ministries and analysed them by question type and topic, political party of question asker, and how well they were answered. These are the excel sheets we worked off:

• Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth

• Ministry of Communication and Information

• Ministry of Defence

• Ministry of Education

• Ministry of Environment and Water Resources

• Ministry of Finance

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs

• Ministry of Health

• Ministry of Home Affairs

• Ministry of Law

• Ministry of Manpower

• Ministry of National Development

• Ministry of Social and Family Development

• Ministry of Transport

• Ministry of Trade and Industry

• Prime Minister's Office

A summary of the statistics can be found here.