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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 ...
A Canadian Member of Parliament, in this case then-Leader of the Opposition Andrew Scheer, poses a question during Question Period in March 2019. Question time in the House of Commons of Canada, colloquially referred to as Question Period, and formally known as Oral Questions, occurs during each sitting day in the House of Commons.
This article could do with a few further details - why PMQs were launched in the first place and so on. I have a very good book at home on the history of the role of the Prime Minister in the UK and will delve into that to see if it could help here.
Then-Leader of the Opposition Andrew Scheer poses a question to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, 2019. Question Period (QP; French: période des questions), known officially as Oral Questions (French: questions orales), occurs each sitting day in the House of Commons of Canada—similarly in provincial legislatures—in which members of the parliament ask questions of government ministers ...
Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs), a constitutional convention in the UK Prime Minister's Questions, television and radio coverage on BBC Parliament and other BBC channels; Pame languages (ISO 639 code: pmq) "PMQ", a short story by Robert Harris on the collection Speaking with the Angel
In spite of the name, they are not related to the Parliamentary Prime Minister's Questions, As of October 2019, the Prime Minister had released two "People's PMQs". The "People's PMQs" have been criticised as a "sham" event, [2] and as a way for politicians to avoid press scrutiny. [3]
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon answering questions at a session of FMQs on 2 September 2021. Sturgeon's eventual successor, Humza Yousaf, is seated to her left. First Minister's Questions (FMQs) is the name given to the weekly questioning of the First Minister in the Scottish Parliament.
On 24 September 2019 the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom found that Johnson's attempt to prorogue Parliament for five weeks "had the effect of frustrating or preventing the constitutional role of Parliament in holding the government to account", that the matter was justiciable, and therefore that the attempted prorogation was unlawful.