Government department refuses to publish guidance on financial interests

Regular readers of this page know that I am forever publishing examples of the Government refusing to answer questions for… Read more »

A further twist in the Damian Green saga

Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office and Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Francis Maude (right) has uncovered some Government… Read more »

How many people have had compulsory electro-convulsive therapy?

I've developed an interest in the Government's inability to get its hands on health data. Guildford MP and Shadow Health Minister… Read more »

Government sends two ministers and 45 officials to conference on climate change

Update: Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Greg Clark has issued a press release on this story. Rather… Read more »

The Government doesn’t know about several national health trends

There have been a couple of troubling written answers from Health ministers recently. Shadow Health Minister Anne Milton asked about the… Read more »

Is Scientology a religion?

Bob Neill, Shadow Minister for London, has posed an intriguing question: "Robert Neill: To ask the Minister for Women and… Read more »

Thousands of Cubans in prison because they “may cause a crime in the future”

There are a handful of interesting answers in the latest Hansard. Buckingham MP John Bercow reminded the useful idiots that Cuba… Read more »

Should the Government spend more on clean energy research?

Shadow Enviroment Minister Greg Barker has asked the Government an interesting question about clean energy: "To ask the Secretary of State… Read more »

The Government doesn’t know how many kids drop out of school

Kettering MP Philip Hollobone has received an extraordinary written answer: "To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and… Read more »

Is Lord Falconer going to get a monster pension?

Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude has pressed the Prime Minister over the rather fraught issue of Lord… Read more »

Gordon Brown’s grumpy and inadequate answers to written questions

In the latest edition of Hansard, the Prime Minister gives some rather terse responses to written questions put down by… Read more »

Eric Pickles asks the most written questions in 2007-08

Update: Some more examples of Mr Pickles’s written questions have been added, to give a fuller flavour. Eric Pickles, Shadow… Read more »

Round-up of written answers

There are a few noteworthy written answers in the most recent copies of Hansard. In the Lords’ answers, crossbencher Lord… Read more »

The Government continues to dodge written questions

In the latest copy of Hansard, several more written questions have been inadequately answered. There will be times when the… Read more »