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Erfurt (dpa / th) - Some state administration employees have had to put a lot of working time into answers to parliamentary questions to the state government in recent years.
"The number of parliamentary inquiries has increased continuously in the past election periods," said a spokeswoman for the state government of the German press agency.
MEPs have been asking the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Education, in particular, but also the Ministry of Infrastructure more frequently for a long time.
In the past twelve months, the pandemic has meant that MPs also had many questions for the Ministry of Health.
The spokeswoman said that the parliamentarians repeatedly asked the government about local issues.
"The right of MPs to ask questions to the state government has constitutional status and results from Parliament's control function over the government," she said.
Nor can it be said that answering questions from members of parliament to the administration staff means that there is no time for other tasks.
"The necessary material and human resources must be made available for every type of administrative activity."
During this legislative period, Nadine Hoffmann, MP of the AfD, made two particularly local inquiries to the state government.
She inquired of the government about the findings of a killed dog and cat.
In a request from the state government, the CDU member Christian Tischner wanted to know, among other things, what effect the closure of a certain gym in Greiz would have on club life there.
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The spokeswoman for the state government sees several reasons for the increase in parliamentary questions.
One is that six parliamentary groups are now represented in the state parliament instead of five as in the previous legislative period.
In addition, the government's responses to inquiries are regularly used by the parliamentary groups for their communication in social networks - this also increases their relevance.
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