"the question refers to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you need to clarify what a question is referring to. For example: "What is the answer to the question?" The question refers to the number of apples in the basket.
But when the question refers to "parliament" or "MPs" setting the terms of this regulation – essentially the same thing – support for the proposal plummets.
Like many "third culture kids" (TCKs), I panic, wondering whether the question refers to my nationality, where I was born, where I am living now, or where my parents live.
8 While the question refers to work at home and not explicitly to telework, it is the first question in the section titled "telework" in the survey.
The question refers to the price of the household main residence because of the belief that households have more information about their own house than about prices of houses in the area or nationwide.
Surface features are defined by Chi et al. (1981) as objects that the question refers to as well as discipline-specific terms.
We assume that the question refers to the 100 image subset; the full post-refined 757 image set has lower or comparable R values in all bins.
2. The question referred to current or last occupation held by the person of reference (the one who contributed the largest income to the household).
Does the question refer to Wales?
The question referred to San Francisco's notorious public display of sexuality.
The question referred to foreign leaders; the audience, which responded with a roar of laughter, clearly thought Mrs. Clinton had been thinking of tormentors on the domestic front.
When corrected and told the question referred to his character in his new film, Banderas quickly says, "Oh, he's a monster, a psychopath.
