Appendix 2: Changes to Standing Order 40 relating to dinner and lunch break business.
Proposed new text is bold.
40 Arrangement of the Order Paper
Notices shall be entered in the Order Paper in the order in which they are received at the Table, provided that:
(1)Oral Questions shall be entered before other business
(2)Notices relating to Private Business may be entered before Public Business. At the discretion of the Chairman of Committees they may also be entered later in the Order Paper.
(3)Subject to paragraph (1), notices relating to the Business of the House and to the Chairman of Committees’ Business, if he so desires, shall have priority over other Public Business.
(4)On all sitting days except Thursdays, notices and orders relating to Public Bills, Measures, Affirmative Instruments and reports from Select Committees of the House shall have precedence over other notices and orders save the foregoing.
(5)On Thursdays, notices of Motions shall have precedence over notices and orders relating to Public Bills, Measures and delegated legislation.
(6) Any motion relating to a report from the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee on a draft order laid under the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006, or a subordinate provisions order made or proposed to be made under the Regulatory Reform Act 2001, shall be entered before a motion to approve that order.
(7)Any motion relating to a report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights on a remedial order or draft remedial order laid under Schedule 2 to the Human Rights Act 1998 shall be entered before a motion to approve that order or draft order.
(8)Subject to paragraphs (4) to (7) the precedence of notices and orders relating to Public Bills, Measures, Affirmative Instruments, Negative Instruments and reports from Select Committees of the House may be varied on any day, if the convenience of the House so requires.
(9)Questions for Short Debate shall be entered last, except for balloted topical Questions for Short Debate on Thursdays, which shall be entered after the first motion for general debate.
(10)Business that is expected to be taken during a dinner or lunch break shall be taken at the time so intended notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (4) and (5).