CONTENTS
Dates when Standing Orders were passed and
amended
Table showing times of sittings and other
events
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. Administration Committee
140. Joint Committee on Consolidation,
&c., Bills
141. Regulatory Reform Committee
142. [Repealed, 13th July 2005]
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
Shorter speeches
Modernisation of the House of Commons
Liaison Committee (membership)
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