Standing Orders — Sessional

I move, That the following sessional order be adopted:

Oral questions after urgency accorded

(1) During a sitting that is extended by urgency, oral questions will be taken at 2 pm on a Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, unless the Business Committee determines otherwise.

(2) Standing Order 59 is read accordingly.

This is a very short motion just to make clear that when the House goes into urgency, there will be question time on each actual day, even though, in parliamentary terms, it’s not a real day, but there will be question time during urgency. It just, essentially, makes sure that the Government doesn’t have to go through the Business Committee and get the Business Committee to agree or, indeed, move a motion like we are. So, hopefully, it will be one and done, and I suspect this will be an issue that gets referred to the Standing Orders Committee for permanent adoption into the Standing Orders into the 49th Parliament.

Motion agreed to.