The phrase "affects the question" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how a particular factor or element influences or changes the nature of a question being asked.
Example: "The new evidence presented in the case significantly affects the question of the defendant's guilt."
Alternatives: "impacts the question" or "influences the question".
Ultimately, Scruton offers a new way of understanding how self-consciousness affects the question of how we should live.
The manner in which it is raised in no way affects the question whether the dividend received by the stockholder is income or capital; nor can it conceivably affect the question whether it is taxable as income.
The fact that he is a defendant does not condemn him as unworthy of belief, but at the same time it creates an interest greater than that of any other witness, and to that extent affects the question of credibility.
The bill is an original bill in behalf of the United States, filed under the direction of the Attorney General, and the fact that the Interstate Commerce Commission requested him to cause this suit to be instituted in no manner adds to or affects the question of the government's right to maintain it.
In Section 4.3.2, we explain how that notion has been replaced by a family of more precise notions, and explore how it affects the question of whether global supervenience entails strong individual supervenience.
"We know that industry funding not only affects the results of studies but affects the questions that are asked, how the results are analyzed and what the answers are," said Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman, a professor of pharmacology at Georgetown University and director of Pharmed Out, a group that researches drug marketing.
This problem also only affects the questions on the last completed project, not the questions on developers opinions.
Keenan also raised the issue of how Trump's boasting and defensiveness might affect the question of good faith.
Hence these distinctions between the two types of immunity cannot affect the question with which we are now concerned.
Then the circumstance that there is no judge not equally disqualified to act in such a case has been held to affect the question.
"While the advocate general notes that difficulties may arise from a ratification process involving all of the member states alongside the EU, she considers that that cannot affect the question of who has competence to conclude the agreement," she wrote.
