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A wide shot of Prime Minister's Questions in 2024, showing the House of Commons packed with members. Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs, officially known as Questions to the Prime Minister, while colloquially known as Prime Minister's Question Time) is a constitutional convention in the United Kingdom, currently held as a single session every Wednesday at noon when the House of Commons is ...
First Minister's Questions (FMQs) is the name given to the weekly questioning of the First Minister in the Scottish Parliament. It serves the purpose of holding the Scottish Government to account and the format has evolved over time. First Minister's Questions follows in some of the traditions of Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons.
Hansard also publishes written answers – known as written ministerial statements – made by government ministers in response to questions formally posed by members. In 1839, Hansard, by order of the House of Commons , printed and published a report stating that an indecent book published by a Mr. Stockdale was circulating in Newgate Prison .
Crowds wait for Churchill outside the U.S. Capitol (Washington Star)Winston Churchill's first address to the U.S. Congress was a 30-minute World War II-era radio-broadcast speech made in the chamber of the United States Senate on December 26, 1941.
Prime Minister of United Arab Emirates: Constitutional monarchy 11 February 2006 18 years, 331 days Viktor Orbán: Prime Minister of Hungary: Parliamentary republic 29 May 2010 14 years, 223 days Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed: Prime Minister of Djibouti: Presidential republic: 1 April 2013 11 years, 281 days Edi Rama: Prime Minister of Albania
The reason for asking the Prime Minister about his engagements is because, until recently, any member of the cabinet could answer the posed question, allowing the Prime Minister to avoid having to answer any questions himself, but once someone answers a question, they are obliged to answer follow up questions (on any topic).
The list includes the names of recently elected or appointed heads of state and government who will take office on an appointed date, as presidents-elect and prime ministers–designate, and those leading a government-in-exile if internationally recognised.
The UK House of Commons Committee of Privileges inquiry into the matter referred on 21 April 2022 on the conduct of Boris Johnson concerns four specific assertions made by the then Prime Minister at Prime Minister's Questions about "the legality of activities in 10 Downing Street and the Cabinet Office under Covid regulations", events commonly referred to as Partygate.