The exception to this sequence are the Business Questions ( Questions to the Leader of House of Commons ), in which questions are submitted about Parliamentary procedure, as well as any issue that MPs might want to raise to the government.

* Parliamentary business – Questions for written or oral answer, New Zealand Parliament

On March 6, 2002, while answering Parliamentary Questions, Bradshaw accused George Galloway of " being not just an apologist but a mouthpiece for the Iraqi regime over many years ".

He also stood down from his role as spokesman for the Speaker's Committee answering Parliamentary Questions for the Electoral Commission.

He was once a Parliamentary Private Secretary, but was forced to resign and was suspended for 20 days after he was found to have accepted a £ 1000 bribe to ask questions in Parliament, popularly known as the Cash for Questions affair.

He regularly tables Parliamentary Questions scrutinising the Scottish Government ’ s conduct, and supposedly exposed several " irregularities ", including the entertaining of wealthy SNP backers at Bute House at the expense of the taxpayer, and the preferential treatment given to Stagecoach, whose co-founder Brian Souter gave £ 500, 000 to the SNP, in the Forth hovercraft project.

Joyce, along with fellow MPs Tom Harris and Jo Swinson, regularly uses the social networking tool Twitter during Parliamentary business including the Prime Minister's Questions to encourage constituents to feel involved with parliamentary proceedings.

Maxwell Fyfe was a champion of European integration and a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from August 1949 to May 1952, becoming the Chair of the Assembly's Committee on Legal and Administrative Questions, and rapporteur on the committee drafting the European Convention on Human Rights.

Questions of constitutional reform, land ownership and nationalism all combined to complicate matters, as did splits in both the Liberal Party in 1886 and the Irish Parliamentary Party in 1891.

The Committee is responsible for answering Parliamentary Questions on behalf of the Commission.

Alexander's responsibilities included the merchant navy, and answering Parliamentary Questions on all trade matters.

Providing support to Ministers through briefing and advice on replies to correspondence and Parliamentary Questions.

Recipient of Silver Medal by Bureau of Parliamentary Affairs for raising maximum number ( more than 7000 ) of Questions on the Floor of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly during 1967-71.

* Called to Serve-A compilation of Parliamentary Speeches & Questions ( 10th Singapore Parliament, 2002-2006 ) by NCMP Steve Chia Autobiography about himself and 10th Singapore Parliament.

The position required a great deal of detailed work and would always attract many Parliamentary Questions, but did not allow the minister much scope for initiative or achievement.

Richards presented GMTV's The Sunday Programme, BBC Two's Despatch Box, BBC Radio 4's Week in Westminster and chairs a light-hearted quiz show on Radio 4, Parliamentary Questions.

DVD chapter titles: The King Edward Touch ; My Two Favourite Americans ; A Futile Cause ; Hands Off Our King ; Replies from the Dominions ; Unconstitutional ; Parliamentary Questions.

Elections for the Assembly are held as in the Parliamentary system — there is an upper time limit ( five years ) between elections, but they can be called more frequently if the Prime Minister so decides, or if he is forced to it by the loss of a vote of confidence.

While not a " democrat " in any modern sense ( no one in his society was ), Massinger's political sympathies, insofar as we can determine them from his works, might have placed him in a predicament similar to that of the head of the house he revered, the Earl of Pembroke — who found that he could not support King Charles in the English Civil War, and became one of the few noblemen to back the Parliamentary side.

But, even if I took a contrary view – if I deemed it to be most advantageous, I still should deeply regret that the position of the Executive should have been so degraded as it has been in the present session: I should deeply regret to find that the House of Commons has applauded a policy of legerdemain ; and I should, above all things, regret that this great gift to the people – if gift you think – should have been purchased at the cost of a political betrayal which has no parallel in our Parliamentary annals, which strikes at the root of all that mutual confidence which is the very soul of our party Government, and on which only the strength and freedom of our representative institutions can be sustained.

This is perhaps the highest tribute that can deservedly be bestowed upon the old Irish Parliamentary Party, which during fifty years of hard and exacting as well as frustrating parliamentary labours, established and fostered the development of representative institutions which gave stimulus to democratic action and discussion at every level of political involvement.

Only Norwegian citizens can vote in the Parliamentary elections, but foreigners who have lived in Norway for three years continuously can vote in the local elections.

Parliamentary privilege is controversial because of its potential for abuse ; a member can use privilege to make damaging allegations that would ordinarily be discouraged by defamation laws, without first determining whether those allegations have a strong foundation.

Three principal issues emerged from their judgment, namely the availability of interim relief against the Crown, the basis on which such relief can be granted, and the impact of the ruling on Parliamentary sovereignty.

Jānis Šmits who was appointed to the position of chairman of the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee has called his parliamentary colleagues to get familiar with religious writings " in case they can actually, read ", quoting a passage from The Book of Moses, that could be loosely translated as: " men having gay sex must die, and their corpses must be left soaking in their own blood ".

The best place to listen to the carillon is suggested to be within 100 metres of the building, though the sound can usually be heard much further away in the Parliamentary Triangle, Kingston and Civic.

In Britain under the doctrine of Parliamentary sovereignty, the legislature can ( in theory ) pass such retrospective laws as it sees fit, though article 7 of the international convention on human rights, which has legal force in Britain, forbids conviction for a crime which was not illegal at the time it was committed.

No Government can prosecute a war efficiently unless it has public and Parliamentary support.

Ministers where committed to reintroducing it when they can find a place in the Parliamentary timetable, but failed to do so.

In times of war, the Parliamentary session may extend beyond five years, but these extensions can be for no more than 12 months increments each time.

The All Party Parliamentary Group for Debt, Aid and Trade's inquiry into Aid Effectiveness can be found online and the submissions of other contributors are available upon request.

When Moyo brought the AIPPA to parliament, the chairman of the Parliamentary Legal Committee, Dr Eddison Zvobgo, said, " I can say without equivocation that this Bill, in its original form, was the most calculated and determined assault on our liberties guaranteed by the Constitution, in the 20 years I served as Cabinet minister.

The Hall was plundered and the Parliamentary soldiers attacked the nearby church, smashing windows and defacing a statue of Henry Noel ’ s first wife ( the damage to the fingers and nose can still be seen ).

NCMPs and NMPs can participate in all Parliamentary debates, but cannot vote on any motion relating to:

The Speaker may be elected from among the MPs who are not Ministers or Parliamentary Secretaries, but even a person who is not an MP can be chosen.

The Edgbaston Garrison musters from August 19, 1645 to April 30, 1646, can be found among the accounts of the Warwickshire County Committee, which was the Parliamentary Committee of accounts for the County, along with musters, warrants, levy assessments and other documents submitted by field officers and garrison commanders to be examined by the Committee.

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Bahrain is funded by a PR company employed by the Bahraini government, and in addition to the favourable commentary on Bahraini issues which can be found on its website, the GCSS can be said to promote an image of Bahrain which is very much in line with that of the Bahraini government itself.

With the growth of Parliamentary sovereignty as a doctrine, Coke's theory gradually died out ; William Blackstone, in the first edition of his Commentaries on the Laws of England, wrote that " if the parliament will positively enact a thing to be done which is unreasonable, I know of no power that can control it: and the examples alleged in support of this sense of the rule do none of them prove, that where the main object of a statute is unreasonable the judges are at liberty to reject it ; for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government ".

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe ( PACE ), which held its first session in Strasbourg on 10 August 1949, can be considered the oldest international parliamentary assembly with a pluralistic composition of democratically elected members of parliament established on the basis of an intergovernmental treaty.

They also believed that Labour had become too left-wing, and had been infiltrated at constituency level by Trotskyist factions whose views and behaviour they considered to be at odds with the Parliamentary Labour Party and Labour voters.

With a general election looming, the Parliamentary Labour Party then appointed Attlee as interim leader, on the understanding that a leadership election would be held after the general election.

Although the posts of leader and party president of Fianna Fáil are separate, with the former elected by the Parliamentary Party and the latter elected by the Ardfheis ( thus allowing for the posts to be held by different people, in theory ), in practice they have always been held by the one person.

Furthermore, because of the existence of Parliamentary sovereignty, while the theory of separation of powers may be studied there, a system such as that of the UK is more accurately described as a " fusion of powers ".

Prominent politicians of the Sikh Diaspora include the first Asian American to be elected as a Member of United States Congress Dalip Singh Saund, the current UK Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Parmjit Dhanda MP and the first couple to ever sit together in any parliament in the history of Commonwealth countries Gurmant Grewal and Nina Grewal, who sought apology by the Canadian Government for the historical Komagata Maru incident, and the Canadian Shadow Social Development Minister Ruby Dhalla MP.

They were committed broadly to the abolition of corruption within the Parliamentary and judicial process, toleration of religious differences, the translation of law into the common tongue and, arguably, something that could be considered democracy in its modern form-arguably the first time contemporary democratic ideas had been formally framed and adopted by a political movement.

Autonomous Parliamentary democracies began to be established throughout the six British colonies from the mid-19th century.

At that time he appeared to be trying to create a separate Welsh national party modelled on Parnell's Irish Parliamentary Party and worked towards a union of the North and South Wales Liberal Federations.

The Parliamentary Pass must be signed by two parliamentarians.

He moved to be Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty from 1950 where he was a delegate to the Council of Europe and resisted plans for a European army.

* Writer Barbara Gorna on Women's Parliamentary Radio claiming Davison's death to be a tragic accident not suicide

According to the journalist Paul Routledge, Donald Bruce, a former MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary and adviser to Bevan, had told him that Bevan's shift on the disarmament issue was the result of discussions with the Soviet government where they advised him to push for British retention of nuclear weapons so they could possibly be used as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the United States.

A Parliamentary Act from the reign of King Henry VIII stipulated that only the corpses of executed murderers could be used for dissection.

The Parliamentary ordinance that was passed proclaimed Essex to be: " Captain-General and Chief Commander of the Army appointed to be raised, and of all other Forces of the Kingdom ... and that he the said Earl shall have and enjoy all Power, Titles, Preheminence, Authority, Jurisdiction, and Liberties, incident and belonging to the said Office of Captain-General, throughout the whole Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales, in as large and ample a Manner as any other General of an Army in this Kingdom hath lawfully used exercised, and enjoyed.

A republican settlement was not the objective of the Parliamentary army at this point and it would not be during Essex's lifetime.

A dispute over the amount to be paid to Collings, Chamberlain's Parliamentary Secretary, worsened relations between Gladstone and Chamberlain, although the latter still hoped that he could alter or block Gladstone's Home Rule proposal in Cabinet, so that his programme of Radicalism could be given more attention.

EDMs may not be signed by government ministers, Parliamentary Private Secretaries or the Speaker of the House of Commons and very few are debated on the floor of the Chamber of the House.

The last British Royal Yacht, the post World War II HMY Britannia, was ostensibly constructed in a way as to be easily convertible to a hospital ship, but this is now thought to be largely a ruse to ensure Parliamentary funding, and she never served in this role-reputedly her lifts were too small to take standard-sized stretchers.

The Third Home Rule Bill introduced in 1912 by the Irish Parliamentary Party could no longer be vetoed after the passing of the Parliament Act 1911 which removed the power of the Lords to veto bills.

A petition is the oldest form of Parliamentary proceeding, and the one through which most early statutes were originally passed ; the King would be petitioned to take action by Members of Parliament, and would assent to their request ; laws passed in this way include Magna Carta and the Statute of Westminster.