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CHAMbER & COMMITTEES

Question Time
Before Question Time or ministerial statements, you should
write to the Speaker seeking to be called only when you
wish to draw to his attention a particular fact (for example
a constituency connection or personal interest), which
you think he should bear in mind. Members who submit
generalised requests to be called will be given no preference.
A request to be called at Prime Minister’s Questions should
be submitted only in the most exceptional circumstances. An
example might be where a human tragedy has taken place
in the constituency. Generalised requests to be called will be
counter productive.

Statements
Members seeking to be called following a ministerial
statement, urgent question or the business question must be
present for the whole of the opening statement.

Statistics
The Speaker’s Office keeps comprehensive records of Speaker’s Office
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Members’ success and failure in being called in debate,
following ministerial statements and at Prime Minister’s
Questions. These statistics are always taken into account on
a subsequent occasion.