Written questions in Parliament a tool of opposition parties - study
A study by a civil society group has found that the oversight and accountability mechanism of written questions in Parliament was particularly a tool of the opposition parties. “Research shows that in all parliaments, opposition parties are more active in asking questions than governing parties - even if governing parties have genuine policy concerns, they can use informal means to obtain information or bring government attention to issues, due to their close relation to the government.
“Opposition parties, on the other hand, have an interest in exposing the policy failures of the government as this draws negative attention to the government,” the Parliamentary Monitoring Group said. The PMG said written questions allowed parliamentarians to ask a minister about the activities, spending, policy and legislation implementation of a department to keep the executive accountable.
PMG said a total of 18 823 written questions were posed to the executive over the last term of Parliament.The DA’s Mike Waters was named the MP who asked the most questions in the previous term of Parliament, with about 250 questions on average a year.“An analysis of the data indicates that the response rate is high. The quality of the replies needs a survey of the MPs who asked the questions.
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