questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what has been the average time taken to respond to public inquiries by his Department in each of the last five years; and whether he plans to introduce measures to improve this.
answerText: The Ministry of Defence has not been required to respond to any interim or final reports of statutory public inquiries under the Inquiries Act, or to independent non-statutory inquiries, within the last five years. 
heading: Ministry of Defence: Public Inquiries