CONTENTS
Dates when Standing Orders were passed and
amended
Table showing sitting times
THE SPEAKER
1. Election of the Speaker: Member
presiding
1A. Re-election of former Speaker
1B. Election of Speaker by secret
ballot
DEPUTY SPEAKER AND CHAIRMEN
2. Deputy Chairmen
3. Deputy
Speaker
4. Chairmen's
Panel
MEMBERS (INTRODUCTION AND SEATING)
5. Affirmation
in lieu of oath
6. Time for
taking the oath
7. Seats not
to be taken before prayers
8. Seats secured
at prayers
SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE
9. Sittings
of the House
10. Sittings
in Westminster Hall
11. Friday
sittings
12. House
not to sit on certain Fridays
13. Earlier
meeting of House in certain circumstances
ARRANGEMENT AND TIMING OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
BUSINESS
14. Arrangement
of public business
15. Exempted
business
16. Proceedings
under an Act or on European Union documents
17. Delegated
legislation (negative procedure)
18. Consideration
of draft regulatory reform orders
19. New writs
20. Time for
taking private business
NOTICES OF QUESTIONS, ETC.
21. Time for
taking questions
22. Notices
of questions, motions and amendments
22A. Written
statements by ministers
MOTIONS FOR BILLS AND SELECT COMMITTEES
23. Motions
for leave to bring in bills and nomination of select committees
at commencement of public business
MOTIONS FOR THE ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE
24. Adjournment
on specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration
25. Periodic
adjournments
ORDERS OF THE DAY
26. Orders
of the day to be read without question put
27. Order
of disposing of orders of the day
RULES OF DEBATE
28. Anticipation
29. Powers
of chair to propose question
30. Debate
on motion for the adjournment of the House
31. Questions
on amendments
32. Selection
of amendments
33. Calling
of amendments at end of debate
34. Debate
on dilatory motion
35. Dilatory
motion in abuse of rules of House
36. Closure
of debate
37. Majority
for closure or for proposal of question
DIVISIONS
38. Procedure
on divisions
39. Voting
40. Division
unnecessarily claimed
41. Quorum
41A. Deferred
divisions
ORDER IN THE HOUSE
42. Irrelevance
or repetition
43. Disorderly
conduct
44. Order
in debate
45. Members
suspended, &c., to withdraw from precincts
45A. Suspension
of salary of Members suspended
46. Power
of the Speaker to adjourn House or suspend sitting
47. Short
speeches
PUBLIC MONEY
48. Recommendation
from Crown required on application relating to public money
49. Certain
proceedings relating to public money
50. Procedure
upon bills whose main object is to create a charge upon the public
revenue
51. Ways and
means motions
52. Money
resolutions and ways and means resolutions in connection with
bills
53. Application
of public money standing orders to private bills, &c.
54. Consideration
of estimates
55. Questions
on voting of estimates, &c.
56. Consolidated
Fund Bills
PUBLIC BILLS
57. Presentation
and first reading
57A. Bills
brought from the Lords
58. Consolidation
bills
59. Law Commission
bills
60. Tax law
rewrite bills
61. Bills
which are prima facie hybrid
62. Amendment
on second or third reading
63. Committal
of bills
64. Notices
of amendments, &c., to bills
65. Amendments
in committee
66. Committee
of whole House on bill
67. Postponement
of preamble
68. Debate
on clause or schedule standing part
69. Procedure
on offer of new clause
70. When chairman
leaves chair without question put
71. Report
of bill from committee of whole House
72. Consideration
of bill as amended in committee of whole House
73. Report
of bills committed to standing committees
74. Recommittal
of bill
75. Amendments
on report
76. Debate
on bill reported from standing committee
77. Third
reading
78. Lords
amendments
79. Pecuniary
penalties
80. Privilege
(bills brought from the Lords)
80A. Carry-over
of bills
81. Temporary
laws
82. Business
Committee
83. Allocation
of time to bills
PROGRAMMING OF BILLS
83A. Programme
motions
83B. Programming
committees
83C. Programming
subcommittees
83D. Programme
orders: conclusion of proceedings in standing committee or in
committee of the whole House
83E. Programme
orders: conclusion of proceedings on consideration or third reading
83F. Programme
orders: conclusion of proceedings on consideration of Lords amendments
83G. Programme
orders: conclusion of proceedings on further messages from the
Lords
83H. Programme
orders: reasons committee
83I. Programme
orders: supplementary provisions
STANDING COMMITTEES
84. Constitution
of standing committees
85. Chairmen
of standing committees
86. Nomination
of standing committees
87. Attendance
of law officers and ministers in standing committees
88. Meetings
of standing committees
89. Procedure
in standing committees
90. Second
reading committees
91. Special
standing committees
92. Consideration
on report of certain bills by a standing committee
93. Scottish
Grand Committee (composition and business)
94. Scottish
Grand Committee (questions for oral answer)
95. Scottish
Grand Committee (short debates)
96. Scottish
Grand Committee (ministerial statements)
97. Scottish
Grand Committee (bills in relation to their principle)
98. Scottish
Grand Committee (delegated legislation)
99. Scottish
Grand Committee (substantive motions for the adjournment)
100. Scottish
Grand Committee (sittings)
101. Scottish
Standing Committees
102. Welsh
Grand Committee (composition and business)
103. Welsh
Grand Committee (questions for oral answer)
104. Welsh
Grand Committee (short debates)
105. Welsh
Grand Committee (ministerial statements)
106. Welsh
Grand Committee (bills)
107. Welsh
Grand Committee (matters relating exclusively to Wales)
108. Welsh
Grand Committee (sittings)
109. Northern
Ireland Grand Committee (composition and business)
110. Northern
Ireland Grand Committee (questions for oral answer)
111. Northern
Ireland Grand Committee (short debates)
112. Northern
Ireland Grand Committee (ministerial statements)
113. Northern
Ireland Grand Committee (bills in relation to their principle)
114. Northern
Ireland Grand Committee (legislative proposals and other matters
relating exclusively to Northern Ireland)
115. Northern
Ireland Grand Committee (delegated legislation)
116. Northern
Ireland Grand Committee (sittings)
117. Standing
Committee on Regional Affairs
118. Standing
Committees on Delegated Legislation
119. European
Standing Committees
120. Business
subcommittees
SELECT COMMITTEES
121. Nomination
of select committees
122. Lists
of Members serving on select committees
122A. Term
limits for chairmen of select committees
123. Sittings
of committees
124. Quorum
of select committees
125. Select
committees (admission of the public)
126. Withdrawal
of Members from meetings of select committees
127. Withdrawal
of documents before select committee
128. Entry
on minutes of proceedings of select committee
129. Minutes
of proceedings to be laid on the Table
130. Entry
on minutes of evidence of select committee
131. Entry
of questions asked
132. Administration
of oath in select committee
133. Power
to report opinion and observations
134. Select
committees (reports)
135. Witnesses
and evidence (select committees)
136. Publication
of evidence (select committees)
137. Select
committees (adjournment of the House)
137A. Select
committees: power to work with other committees
138. Members
(attendance at Lords select committees)
139. Select
Committee on Broadcasting
140. Joint
Committee on Consolidation, &c., Bills
141. Regulatory
Reform Committee
142. Domestic
Committees
143. European
Scrutiny Committee
144. Finance
and Services Committee
145. Liaison
Committee
146. Select
Committee on Public Administration
147. Procedure
Committee
148. Committee
of Public Accounts
149. Committee
on Standards and Privileges
150. Parliamentary
Commissioner for Standards
151. Statutory
Instruments (Joint Committee)
152. Select
committees related to government departments
152A. Environmental
Audit Committee
152B. Human
rights (joint committee)
152C. Tax
law rewrite (joint committee)
HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS ESTIMATE COMMITTEE
152D. House
of Commons Members Estimate Committee
PUBLIC PETITIONS
153. Presentation
of petitions
154. Time
and manner of presenting petitions
155. Petition
as to present personal grievance
156. Printing
of petitions and of ministerial replies
157. Petitions
against imposition of tax
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS
158. Presentation
of command papers
159. Presentation
of statutory instruments
160. Notification
in respect of certain statutory instruments
MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC
161. Duties
of Serjeant at Arms with respect to the public
162. Places
to which the public are not admitted
163. Motions
to sit in private
APPENDIX: RESOLUTIONS AND TEMPORARY STANDING
ORDERS
RESOLUTIONS
Matters sub judice
Scrutiny of European
Business
Questions to Ministers
TEMPORARY STANDING ORDERS
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday sittings
Modernisation of the
House of Commons
Liaison Committee (Membership)
Joint activities with
the National Assembly for Wales
Shorter speeches
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