Who can make a written statement

Ministers make written statements. Secretaries of State usually make the more significant statements, and junior ministers make statements on things that are their direct responsibility.

Specific backbenchers (MPs who are not ministers or shadow ministers) can also make written statements. These backbenchers make written statements on behalf of the

• House of Commons Commission
• Speaker’s Committee on the Electoral Commission
• Public Accounts Commission
• Church Commissioners
• Speaker’s Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
• Restoration & Renewal Client Board