Procedure Committee
17 June 2026
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Procedure Committee House of Commons
00:03 - 00:59
Speaker 4
Order, order, and welcome to this afternoon's public session of the Procedure Committee. Written Parliamentary Questions, or WPQs for short, are an important tool for MPs in raising public interest and dealing with much of their constituency work. Our committee routinely monitors the performance of Whitehall departments in responding to WPQs in a timely manner. Where performance dips below a certain threshold, we ask government ministers and officials to come before us so they can explain any issues and set out their plans to resolve them. So this afternoon we're joined by Josh MacAlister MP, the Minister for Children and Families, and Tony Foot, the Chief Operating Officer from the Department for Education, to discuss the department's WPQ performance over the last session of Parliament.
So good afternoon to you both. Before we begin, could I ask you please to formally introduce yourselves for the record, starting with Minister MacAlister.
00:59 - 01:05
Speaker 2
Josh MacAlister, the Minister for Children and Families, Member of Parliament for Whitehaven and Workington.
01:05 - 01:09
Speaker 1
Hello, and I'm Tony Foot, Chief Operating Officer for the Department for Education.
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