As the German Bundestag reports on its website, a Question Time will take place on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, following the Government Question Time. During this session, representatives of the Federal Government will answer questions that Members of Parliament have submitted in writing in advance for 45 minutes. A total of 69 questions are to be answered, with the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group asking the most with 29 questions. According to the Bundestag, Members of Parliament from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) parliamentary group follow with 24 questions and the The Left parliamentary group with 16 questions. No questions are asked by Members of Parliament from the Christian Democratic Union of Germany/Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CDU/CSU) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) parliamentary groups, as well as by non-attached Members of Parliament.
The questions are directed at various Federal Ministries. As the Bundestag informs, 19 questions are addressed to the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, followed by the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Federal Foreign Office with eight questions each. Six questions each go to the Federal Ministry of Health and the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport must deal with five questions each. The Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community is to comment on three questions, while the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture and the Federal Ministry of Defence are confronted with two questions each. The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, and the Federal Ministry of the Interior and for Community are to take a position on one question each, as is the Federal Chancellery.
The Bundestag cites some examples of questions from Members of Parliament. For instance, the Bavarian Member of Parliament Lisa Badum (Alliance 90/The Greens) asks the Federal Ministry for the Environment whether it supports the payment of a socially graded climate allowance to relieve consumers in the current fossil energy price crisis. If this is not the case, Badum wants to know why not. The North Rhine-Westphalian Member of Parliament Maximilian Kneller (AfD) inquires with the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport what findings the Federal Government has regarding a shortage of aviation fuel in relation to the "Iran War". The Berlin Member of Parliament Stella Merendino (The Left) wants to know from the Federal Ministry of Health with which concrete mechanisms the Federal Government plans to implement the capping of the nursing budget, citing as examples a cap per hospital or the determination of a capped total amount.
As the Bundestag further reports, each Member of Parliament can submit up to two questions to the Federal Government in advance. After the answer, which is regularly given by a Parliamentary State Secretary or a Federal Minister, the questioner, but also other Members of the German Bundestag, can ask supplementary questions and s
