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AnswerTheQuestion reads questions put to UK Government ministers and departments — written questions, Oral Questions, Urgent Questions, and ministerial Statements — and judges whether the reply actually addresses what was asked.

Each question is broken down into its separately-answerable items, and each item is checked against the reply: was it addressed, partially addressed, deferred, or not addressed at all? That breakdown is then rolled up into a single Red/Amber/Green verdict, so you can scan a lot of exchanges quickly, but still drill into exactly why any one of them was scored the way it was.

This isn't a verdict on the policy itself, or on whether the asker's underlying premise was fair — it's narrower than that: did the reply engage with what was actually asked, or did it sidestep, defer, or substitute something else instead? See Methods for exactly how that judgment is made, and Data sources for where the underlying questions and answers come from.

This is an independent project, not affiliated with the UK Parliament or any government department.