"provided a response" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that someone has given an answer to a question or situation. For example, "The teacher provided a response to the student's question about the assignment."
Boyling and the Met were given a detailed account of the woman's allegations, but neither provided a response.
The Home Office did not reply to the request within the legal deadline, but eventually provided a response refusing to release the information.
Accused by L'Equipe, the French sports daily newspaper, of uttering lurid anti-French remarks while being kept in a queue at an airport on Sunday night, he provided a response quite as entertaining as the race itself.
Yet take a look at the list of those who provided a response to the consultation and you'll find that the vast majority come from individual members of the public.
Keenlyside suggests, by way of explanation, that before film and photography were widely available, perhaps poetry and music served their purpose; they provided a response to the human tragedy of war, though not often a depiction of it.
— A day after fumbling a predictable and straightforward question posed by Mitt Romney last week — are Americans better off than they were four years ago — the Obama campaign provided a response on Monday that it said would be hammered home during the Democratic convention here this week: "Absolutely".
Locog has not provided a response.
They provided a response rate of about 52%%.
We contacted Uber and Tencent for comment, but neither company provided a response.
The company has acknowledged the question but has not provided a response.
The return of 112 questionnaires provided a response rate of 66.7%%.
