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Bercow’s urgent questions

0.44 per day

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Public Accounts Committee

  • NHS Test and Trace

  • NHS IT system with 700% overspend

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2007-8 Michael martin’s urgent questions

  • 4

  • 0.02 per day

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Lindsay Hoyle’s urgent questions

0.6 per day

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  • David Davis (con)

  • Post office Horizon scandal

  • Department of Business

Urgent Question Jan 2024

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any MP can apply to the speaker for an urgent question under Standing Order __

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Total opposition days

20

  • 17 to Official Opposition

  • 3 to 2nd largest party

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Standing Order 24

Mps can apply for an emergency debate

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Over the decision of the UK government to prevent the Gender Recognition Bill passing in Scotland

Emergency debate - Jan 2023

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Emergency Debates Cons

  • not binding

  • Mps must vote on whether the debate will take place

  • no amendments to original debate allowed

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Emergency Debate Nov 2021

  • Brought by Lib Dems

  • On Owen Patterson Lobbying scandal

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What proportion of the public think that PMQs is ‘informative’?

36%

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% who think PMQs ‘makes me proud of parliament’

12%

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Leader of the opposition’s questions at PMQs

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  • prosecutorial questioning of johnson over partygate

  • Asked Truss ‘why are you still here’ at hight of mini-budget shambles

Starmer scrutiny at PMQs

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  • 1997 Blair vs ‘weak, weak, weak’ Major

  • 2007 Cameron vs ‘Bottler Brown’

  • 2024 Sunak vs ‘flip-flopping’ starmer

Punch and Judy politics

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Wright Reforms 2010

select committee membership is chosen by MPs

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Dr Sarah Wollaston

  • Kept off Health and Social Care Public Bill Committee (2013)

  • Voted as chair onto Health and Social Care Select Committee (2014)

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Domestic Abuse Public Bill Committee

  • received over 96 pieces of written evidence

  • Jess Phillips MP member of committee

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Hoyle broke convention (that only gov could amend opposition day motions) and allowed labour to change SNP’s language on call for immediate cease-fire

SNP opposition day Feb 2024

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weakness of opposition days

  • votes unbinding

  • gov always votes against opposition motions

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last opposition day motion that past

  • 2009

  • (lab rebellion following Joanna Lumley’s campaigns for gurkhas residency rights )