Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Baroness Coffey and Antoinette Sandbach

Thursday 3rd December 2015 Commons Chamber

[Dr Thérèse Coffey]

I am not exactly sure of the procedure that my hon. Friend refers to. It is usually at the discretion of the Chair of the Backbench Business Committee to indicate the likely times of debates on each topic if the Committee chooses to split up its days. The concept of injury time for all business was considered by the Procedure Committee in the last Parliament, but the Committee agreed with the then Leader of the House that rendering uncertain the time of conclusion of debates in the House would be undesirable.

[Antoinette Sandbach (Eddisbury) (Con)]

7. What assessment he has made of whether oral questions to the Leader of the House is an effective use of parliamentary time.