"in reply to the question" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to introduce someone's answer to a previously posed question. For example: "In reply to the question of why she was late, she said she had been stuck in traffic."
At the trial, held in mid-June, character witnesses testified that Dixon was "a harmless, inoffensive man, but destitute of business capacity" and "in reply to the question whether Dixon was non compos mentis, I consider him as being on the frontier line sometimes on one side, and sometimes on the other, just as the breeze of fortune happens to blow".
In reply to the question of how New York had benefitted from the building of high-rise office towers, Richard Roth, Jr. answered, "Taxes".
A truly fine quote from Beckham that maybe didn't get too much play either came in reply to the question, again just before the Brazil game.
In reply to the question which most directly invited such reassurance has the war been worth the cost in American lives?—the president talked hardly at all about what American policy had achieved.
In reply to the question of whether Moliere's misanthrope really hated people, the actor said he did not think so, the man loved them too well, that's why he could not stand them as they were.
In reply to the question "What are some good London Underground hacks?", Mr Strohmeier wrote on Quora that looking for "wear and tear in that yellow line" is a steadfast way to judge where the doors will open.
In reply to the questions Q 1 and Q 2, the viewers assigned a score between 0 (minimum value) to 5 (maximum value) and for Q 3 the viewers only need to respond with 'yes' or 'no'no
In reply to the questions about his role in the affair surrounding Uber's lobbying, Korski said: "First, I didn't lobby for Uber, despite what the Daily Mail says.
In reply to the questions "how can the soul move the body if it is in no way material, and how can it receive the forms of corporeal objects?" he said that "the most ignorant people could, in a quarter of an hour, raise more questions of this kind than the wisest men could deal with in a lifetime; and this is why I have not bothered to answer any of them.
In brief, a study received one point for each 'yes' or zero points for each 'no' given in reply to the questions provided in Appendix 2 in the Supplementary material (maximum number of points is 5).
The mayor was straightforward in replying to the questions about Ms. Nathan, but said he was "annoyed" by what he indicated was the invasion of Ms. Nathan's private life.
