House of Commons - Sitting hours and the Parliamentary calendar

Procedure Committee - First Report
Sitting hours and the Parliamentary calendar

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 13 June 2012.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1 Introduction

The role of a Member of Parliament

Our inquiry

2 Overall sitting patterns (the Parliamentary calendar)

Total number of sitting days

Distribution of sitting days

September sittings

Sitting patterns in the rest of the year

3 Sitting hours

Overall number of hours sat in a week

How to enable the House to come to a decision effectively on daily sitting hours

4 Providing certainty about when Members are required to be present in the House 24

Advance notice of business

Voting

5 Private Members' bills

Problems with private Members' bill procedure

Moving consideration of private Members' bills to an earlier weekday evening

Procedural consequences

6 Other opportunities

Programming

'Injury time' and use of Westminster Hall for Ministerial statements

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of additional written evidence

List of unprinted evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral Evidence

Wednesday 29 June 2011

Wednesday 7 September 2011

Wednesday 14 September 2011

Wednesday 11 January 2012

Wednesday 18 January 2012