Question 12226 — Parliament

Summary

Mr. Patrick Hetzel alerts the Prime Minister to the gigantic delay taken by the Government in processing the written questions asked by parliamentarians. Thus, we can wonder about the Government's lack of consideration for Parliament. Indeed, during the previous legislature, Parliament had agreed to limit the right of parliamentarians to ask written questions by providing a maximum of 52 written questions per parliamentary and per year. The corollary of this restriction of the prerogatives of parliamentarians in the control of government action was to guarantee a response to each question asked by a parliamentarian within a maximum period of two months. It is clear that we are very far from the mark. Cumulatively over ten months, the written questions from MPs numbered 10,078 and only 5,905 received an answer. as of August 1, 2018, i.e. a response rate of less than 50%, which is all the more problematic as it is often the most important questions that remain without a government response. Furthermore, Patrick Hetzel specifically points out to the Prime Minister the case of one of his written questions asked to the Minister of Public Accounts and which is very illustrative of the problem. This is question no. 4532 published in the Official Journal (OJ) dated January 16, 2018 and which was reported to the OJ dated July 17, 2018. However, to date, the MP still has no answer, more than eight months after asking the question and almost two months after reporting the question. All this is likely to seriously harm the supervisory role assigned to Parliament by the Constitution. He asks him what he plans to do so that his Government finally answers the questions legitimately posed by parliamentarians and assigns a real duty of exemplarity to its ministers.

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