Central administration 22 3.16% 2.53% DAP 15 Other central management 7 Minister31 16 2.30% 0.71% Minister of the Interior 6 Minister of Justice 5 Minister of Health 3 Other Minister 2 Magistrate 11 1.58% 2.93% Other 11 1.58% 0.61% TOTAL 696 100% 100% Although fewer verifications were carried out with authorities in 2016 overall, the Ministers of the Interior, Justice and Health were referred general matters for their attention on a much more regular basis. Inquiry case-files When the situation brought to the CGLPL's attention calls for verifications with an authority, an inquiry case file is opened. This can lead to one or more inquiry letters being sent out to one or more authorities; as such, the number of files newly opened is less than the number of inquiry letters generated in the year. The start of the inquiry corresponds to the date on which the letter giving rise to these verifications is received, and the end of the inquiry to the dispatch dates of the letters informing the persons referring the cases of the action taken and the analysis to the authorities referred the information which they have brought to the attention of the CGLPL. Over the course of the first eleven months of the year, 417 new inquiry case-files were opened (versus 522 over the same period in 2015), of which 131 were closed as at 30 November 2016 (versus 196 over the same period in 2015). Among the inquiry case-files that were opened earlier: - 154 were still in progress as at 30 November 2016 (versus 178 in 2015 over the same period); - 255 were closed in the course of the first eleven months of the year (versus 400 in 2015 over the same period). The following statistics pertain only to the inquiry case-files that were newly opened (unless specified otherwise). Recorded in “central administration” in 2013. 31 110