References

Chapter 15 References

[1] For statistics on questions see Appendix 21, Questions without notice may also, from time to time, be put to the Speaker and to private Members; see below—‘Direction of questions’.

[2] May, 24th edn, p. 358.

[3] Questions which Ministers have arranged for government Members to ask in order to provide such opportunities are known colloquially as ‘Dorothy Dixers’. The allusion is to a magazine column of advice to the lovelorn.

[4] H.R. Deb. (3.7.1901) 1954–5.

[5] VP 1962–63/10 (20.2.1962).

[6] H.R. Deb. (3.7.1901) 1954–5; H.R. Deb. (2.10.1913) 1762. see also statement by Speaker Child, H.R. Deb. (28.11.1988) 3329–30.

[7] H.R. Deb. (29.9.1920) 5079.

[8] H.R. Deb. (21.4.1921) 7595.

[9] Standing Orders Committee, Report, H of R 1 (1962–63) 33.

[10] H.R. Deb. (8.7.1915) 4714–21.

[11] H.R. Deb. (8.8.1940) 329–37.

[12] H.R. Deb. (12.2.1943) 651.

[13] H.R. Deb. (17.3.1943) 1864–7.

[14] H.R. Deb. (29.10.1920) 6079–80.

[15] H.R. Deb. (22.11.1920) 6770.

[16] H.R. Deb. (9.9.1913) 942.

[17] E.g. H.R. Deb. (29.10.1941) 18–19.

[18] H.R. Deb. (29.3.1973) 853–4; H.R. Deb. (28.11.1988) 3329–30. Question Time was not held for the week 9–12 February 2009, by agreement between Government and Opposition, following serious bushfires in Victoria.

[19] H.R. Deb. (4.5.1960) 1332–3; H.R. Deb. (9.10.1996) 5061–2. But see H.R. Deb. (10.12.2002) 9986—Speaker permitted Member already given the call to ask a question.

[20] H.R. Deb. (20.3.2003) 13155–6; H.R. Deb. (2.3.2016) 2937.

[21] H.R. Deb. (4.10.1933) 3198. And see VP 1993–96/814–6 (24.2.1994), 2689 (30.11.1995); H.R. Deb. (29.10.1975) 2593; H.R. Deb. (24.3.2003) 13302, and see Ch on ‘Order of business and the sitting day’.

[22] On 4.2.2009.

[23] Some such interruptions have been lengthy—for example, over five hours of debate has occurred following a motion moved by leave during Question Time, VP 2008–10/1547–50 (2.2.2010). (The time taken by the interruption is not counted as part of the duration of Question Time in House statistics.)

[24] But see H.R. Deb. (15.5.2008) 2975, for example of questions continuing.

[25] VP 1974–75/1059–65 (29.10.1975); H.R. Deb. (29.10.1975) 259.

[26] PP 354 (1986) 10.

[27] H.R. Deb. (14.5.1987) 3239–42.

[28] PP 194 (1993) 24–25.

[29] H.R. Deb. (10.2.1994) 826.

[30] 2014–16. The 1996–2016 average was also 19.

[31] Speaker Cameron did not necessarily alternate the call. see H.R. Deb. (25.5.1950) 3280; H.R. Deb. (28.9.1950) 76; H.R. Deb. (21.4.1955) 75–6.

[32] H.R. Deb. (7.5.1992) 2631; H.R. Deb. (19.9.1996) 4762–3.

[33] H.R. Deb. (18.11.2010) 3027.

[34] E.g. H.R. Deb. (29.6.1999) 7691–3; H.R. Deb. (20.8.2003) 19048–19050; H.R. Deb. (2.6.2008) 3962.

[35] E.g. H.R. Deb. (15.10.2002) 7581–3; H.R. Deb. (24.3.2003) 13301–2; H.R. Deb. (25.3.2003) 13411–413.

[36] E.g. H.R. Deb. (28.11.2005) 29–30; H.R. Deb. (4.12.2014) 14325–6.

[37] Standing Committee on Procedure, Standing orders and practices which govern the conduct of Question Time. PP 354 (1986) 50–1. For earlier consideration of these matters by the Standing Orders Committee see PP 20 (1972), H.R. Deb. (23.8.71) 511–12 and H.R. Deb. (18.4.72) 1745–50.

[38] Former S.O. 101(b), omitted November 2013, see earlier editions for historical detail.

[39] And see May, 24th edn, p. 359.

[40] E.g. H.R. Deb. (31.8.1961) 691; H.R. Deb. (6.11.1991) 2423–4, 2429–30; H.R. Deb. (29.6.2000) 18718.

[41] E.g. H.R. Deb. (4.5.1978) 1780; H.R. Deb. (30.3.1999) 4663; H.R. Deb. (2.11.2006) 80–1; H.R. Deb. (17.6.2008) 5051; H.R. Deb. (19.10.2010) 665 (supplementary); H.R. Deb. (14.9.2015) 9974; H.R. Deb. (15.9.2015) 10231–2; H.R. Deb. (15.9.2015) 10224.

[42] H.R. Deb. (28.8.1979) 625–6, 627; H.R. Deb. (22.11.1973) 3679, 3681; H.R. Deb. (9.3.2000) 14336–8.

[43] E.g. H.R. Deb. (6.6.1978) 3075; H.R. Deb. (30.3.1999) 4669; H.R. Deb. (16.6.2008) 4842; H.R. Deb. (20.10.2010) 938 (supplementary); H.R. Deb. (14.9.2015) 9965.

[44] H.R. Deb. (15.3.1978) 737–8; H.R. Deb. (11.9.1996) 3995–6; H.R. Deb. (8.12.1998) 1559; H.R. Deb. (17.8.2000) 19275; H.R. Deb. (19.10.2010) 678; H.R. Deb. (21.6.2011) 6662.

[45] H.R. Deb. (7.11.1978) 2441.

[46] E.g. H.R. Deb. (27.3.2006) 15; H.R. Deb. (3.6.2014) 5290–1; H.R. Deb. (17.9.2015) 10592.

[47] E.g. H.R. Deb. (11.10.1999) 11198; H.R. Deb. (8.9.2015) 9431–2; H.R. Deb. (8.2.2016) 829.

[48] E.g. H.R. Deb. (8.11.2000) 22437; H.R. Deb. (27.6.2002) 4612–4. And see statement by Speaker, H.R. Deb. (19.8.2002) 4813–4.

[49] H.R. Deb. (26.3.1992) 1247.

[50] And see statement by Speaker, H.R. Deb. (19.8.2002) 4813–4.

[51] NP 48 (29.10.1941) 173; NP 131 (17.3.1943) 441.

[52] H.R. Deb. (6.10.1976) 1538.

[53] H.R. Deb. (9.10.1979) 1719.

[54] H.R. Deb. (12.5.1970) 1949; May, 24th edn, p. 364.

[55] H.R. Deb. (5.3.1947) 352–3; H.R. Deb. (4.4.1962) 1264–73; H.R. Deb. (22.8.1979) 428–30. In the 1962 instance a motion of dissent from the Speaker’s ruling, which upheld the practice that Ministers may transfer questions to other Ministers, was defeated; see also May, 24th edn, p. 358.

[56] H.R. Deb. (27.3.1995) 2134, 2137.

[57] See The Table XXIX, 1960, pp. 150–1 for reference to UK House of Commons practice and its rationale.

[58] E.g. H.R. Deb. (23.6.2010) 6346; H.R. Deb. (1.3.2016) 2640.

[59] H.R. Deb. (29.6.2000) 18718–9; and see H.R. Deb. (22.5.2006) 34–5 (Acting Prime Minister).

[60] E.g. H.R. Deb. (6.11.2003) 22359; H.R. Deb. (18.2.2004) 25104; H.R. Deb. (26.3.2007) 34, 35.

[61] Sessional order 151A, V 1993–96/782 (10.2.1994).

[62] H.R. Deb. (8.2.1994) 538.

[63] PP 194 (1993) 25–7.

[64] E.g. H.R. Deb. (9.12.2004) 77; H.R. Deb. (9.3.2005) 81.

[65] E.g. H.R. Deb. (6.12.2004) 38.

[66] H.R. Deb. (2.12.2004) 78–9, 87–9; H.R. Deb. (6.12.2004) 38; H.R. Deb. (7.12.2004) 5–18, V 2004–07/95 (7.12.2004).

[67] H.R. Deb. (8.12.2004) 68–71; (9.12.2004) 68–74; (9.3.2005) 75–8.

[68] E.g. H.R. Deb. (6.2.2007) 27–8.

[69] H.R. Deb. (1.3.1972) 410–12; H.R. Deb. (25.2.1976) 259; H.R. Deb. (26.2.1976) 313–15; H.R. Deb. (16.3.1976) 625; H.R. Deb. (16.3.2000) 14894–5; 14897.

[70] H.R. Deb. (16.3.1976) 625.

[71] H.R. Deb. (9.10.1984) 1897–8; H.R Deb. (13.9.2016) 720.

[72] Standing Committee on Procedure: The operation of standing order 143: Questions to Members other than Ministers, PP 115 (1996).

[73] H.R. Deb. (23.10.1995) 2664; H.R. Deb. (23.6.1999) 7198.

[74] H.R. Deb. (7.6.2000) 17227.

[75] H.R. Deb. (3.8.1926) 4769.

[76] H.R. Deb. (21.6.1912) 68.

[77] H.R. Deb. (25.11.1953) 475.

[78] H.R. Deb. (9.9.1954) 1099.

[79] H.R. Deb. (21.5.1924) 778.

[80] H.R. Deb. (14.5.1958) 1758.

[81] H.R. Deb. (31.8.1961) 696.

[82] H.R. Deb. (21.9.1967) 1183–4.

[83] H.R. Deb. (26.9.1995) 1692–5; H.R. Deb. (28.9.1995) 1988–90.

[84] H.R. Deb. (19.6.1996) 2252–3.

[85] VP 1993–96/2557–8 (26.10.1995) (former S.O. 143).

[86] Standing Committee on Procedure, The operation of standing order 143: Questions to Members other than Ministers, PP 115 (1996) 7. see also e.g. H.R. Deb. (16.2.2005) 66–7.

[87] H.R. Deb. (18.2.1948) 6. The chair was also Attorney-General.

[88] H.R. Deb. (21.6.2011) 6661–2, but see H.R. Deb. (16.10.1957) 1393–4 (question permitted).

[89] H.R. Deb. (6.10.1953) 1004–5; H.R. Deb. (7.10.1953) 1064–5.

[90] H.R. Deb. (3.2.2010) 241.

[91] H.R. Deb. (10.10.1972) 2242.

[92] H.R. Deb. (15.5.2003) 14721–4; and seeH.R. Deb. (27.5.2003)15039–56.

[93] H.R. Deb. (3.2.2010) 242.

[94] H.R. Deb. (29.5.2013) 4292–3.

[95] S.O. 103. For a description of the Speaker’s administrative responsibilities see Ch. on ‘The Speaker, Deputy Speakers and officers’.

[96] H.R. Deb. (24.6.2008) 5740, and see May, 24th edn, p. 357.

[97] H.R. Deb. (19.8.2002) 4814.

[98] And see statements by Speakers Hawker and Jenkins, H.R. Deb. (9.3.2005) 67; H.R. Deb. (19.2.2008) 691–2; H.R. Deb. (18.6.2008) 5217.

[99] VP 1993–96/779 (10.2.1994) (sessional order, made permanent in 1996). Since 1992 questions to the Speaker had been separately identified in Hansard under the heading ‘Questions to Mr Speaker’.

[100] H.R. Deb. (1.12.1953) 707; H.R. Deb. (1.11.1933) 4117.

[101] H.R. Deb. (16.4.1964) 1136, 1138; H.R. Deb. (27.10.1909) 5049.

[102] For establishment of this practice see H.R. Deb. (28.2.1980) 499 and 1st edn, p. 485. Examples, H.R. Deb. (26.11.1980) 57–8, 118; H.R. Deb. (24.2.1981) 43; H.R. Deb. (12.9.1996) 4223.

[103] E.g. H.R. Deb. (6.10.1987) 827; H.R. Deb. (17.9.1996) 4491–2.

[104] S.O. 100(f).This provision was introduced at the start of the 43rd Parliament (2010), initially at 45 seconds, and changed to 30 seconds in February 2012. Previously no time limit applied. An extension may be granted, E.g. VP 2010–13/89 (19.10.2010); VP 2010–13/185 (16.11.2010).

[105] H.R. Deb. (9.2.2016) 1003.

[106] S.O. 98(c). For statistics see Appendix 21.

[107] E.g. H.R. Deb. (13.6.2007) 75.

[108] E.g. H.R. Deb. (22.2.2011) 905; H.R. Deb. (13.9.2011) 9890.

[109] E.g. H.R. Deb. (6.4.1967) 970; H.R. Deb. (22.11.1973) 3679; H.R. Deb. (10.9.1975) 1194; H.R. Deb. (19.4.1988) 1748; H.R. Deb. (9.10.1996) 5051; H.R. Deb. (30.3.1999) 4668; H.R. Deb. (10.4.2000) 15553; H.R. Deb. (28.8.2001) 30365, 30374–5; H.R. Deb. (10.8.2004) 32555; H.R. Deb. (17.11.2004) 80; H.R. Deb. (18.11.2004) 1; H.R. Deb. (10.8.2005) 69; H.R. Deb. (17.10.2006) 20–21; H.R. Deb. (17.3.2008) 1880. But see H.R. Deb. (16.6.2010) 5545–9.

[110] E.g. H.R. Deb. (6.6.1978) 3075; H.R. Deb. (25.10.1979) 2481.

[111] E.g. H.R. Deb. (4.3.2004) 26024; H.R. Deb. (9.3.2004) 26267–8; H.R. Deb. (10.3.2004) 26437–9; H.R. Deb. (18.9.2007) 16; H.R. Deb. (27.2.2012) 1764 (statement); H.R. Deb. (14.9.2015) 9965; H.R. Deb. (15.9.2015) 10229–30, H.R. Deb. (12.11.2015) 13085.

[112] E.g. H.R. Deb. (26.10.1978) 2338; H.R. Deb. (1.6.2006) 63–4; H.R. Deb. (15.9.2015) 10231–2.

[113] E.g. H.R. Deb. (21.8.1975) 382.

[114] E.g. H.R. Deb. (5.5.1964) 1489–90.

[115] E.g. H.R. Deb. (4.5.1977) 1512.

[116] E.g. H.R. Deb. (22.10.1974) 2617; H.R. Deb. (25.5.2009) 4079; H.R. Deb. (15.9.2015) 10223–4.

[117] E.g. H.R. Deb. (12.10.1977) 1892–3.

[118] E.g. H.R. Deb. (10.8.2005) 73–4.

[119] E.g. H.R. Deb. (26.5.1981) 2519; H.R. Deb. (16.6.2008) 4842.

[120] E.g. H.R. Deb. (8.9.1981) 991.

[121] E.g. H.R. Deb. (12.11.1965) 2680; H.R. Deb. (29.8.2000) 19519; H.R. Deb. (29.8.2002) 6163–5. H.R. Deb. (15.10.2015) 11392, 11394.

[122] E.g. H.R. Deb. (28.5.2009) 4775.

[123] H.R. Deb. (2.12.2004) 78–9, 87–9; H.R. Deb. (6.12.2004) 38; H.R. Deb. (7.12.2004) 5–18, VP 2004–07/95 (7.12.2004).

[124] E.g. H.R. Deb. (31.3.1971) 1206; H.R. Deb. (6.10.1976) 1537.

[125] E.g. H.R. Deb. (16.2.2000) 13583.

[126] H.R. Deb. (5.5.1964) 1480.

[127] H.R. Deb. (3.4.2000) 15007.

[128] H.R. Deb. (13.2.2008) 225, 227.

[129] H.R. Deb. (3.6.2009) 5466; H.R. Deb. (14.9.2011) 10083.

[130] H.R. Deb. (11.8.2015) 7911; H.R. Deb. (12.8.2015) 8093–4.

[131] H.R. Deb. (6.12.2004) 38; H.R. Deb. (16.2.2012) 1656. H.R. Deb. (8.2.2016) 829–31, H.R. Deb. (9.2.2016) 1043–4.

[132] H.R. Deb. (9.2.2006) 80.

[133] H.R. Deb. (8.12.2004) 68–71; H.R. Deb. (9.12.2004) 68–74; H.R. Deb. (9.3.2005) 75–8.

[134] H.R. Deb. (26.11.2015) 13890; H.R. Deb. (3.12.2013) 14686.

[135] S.O. 100(c).

[136] H.R. Deb. (22.11.1979) 3425–6.

[137] S.O. 100(a).

[138] E.g. H.R. Deb. (22.9.2011) 11232.

[139] S.O. 100(d); E.g. H.R. Deb. (26.8.1982) 960; H.R. Deb. (14.12.1982) 3396; H.R. Deb. (18.10.1999) 11728; H.R. Deb. (16.6.2003) 16400; H.R. Deb. (3.6.2010) 5221–2; H.R. Deb. (20.10.2010) 938 (supplementary); H.R. Deb. (21.6.2011) 6661; H.R. Deb. (20.3.2012) 3502.

[140] H.R. Deb. (13.4.1961) 799; H.R. Deb. (10.10.1996) 3819.

[141] H.R. Deb. (5.7.1949) 1927.

[142] H.R. Deb. (31.8.1966) 584. The introduction of time limits on questions has now ensured that questions will not be unduly lengthy.

[143] H.R. Deb. (5.5.1978) 1880; H.R. Deb. (18.11.2004) 91.

[144] E.g. H.R. Deb. (9.3.2000) 14336–7.

[145] E.g. H.R. Deb. (18.10.1999) 11728; H.R. Deb. (28.8.2001) 30360; H.R. Deb. (2.11.2006) 81; H.R. Deb. (14.9.2011) 10082–3.

[146] E.g. H.R. Deb. (18.10.1999) 11728; H.R. Deb. (30.8.2000) 19681; H.R. Deb. (20.8.2001) 29712–3; H.R. Deb. (28.5.2003) 15200, 15203; H.R. Deb. (17.9.2003) 20309–10; H.R. Deb. (11.3.2004) 26637–8;H.R. Deb. (29.3.2006) 84; H.R. Deb. (14.9.2011) 10082–3; H.R. Deb. (27.2.2012) 1774.

[147] E.g. H.R. Deb. (3.6.2010) 5217, 5222.

[148] E.g. H.R. Deb. (24.8.1999) 8889.H.R. Deb. (12.10.2006) 74–5.

[149] S.O. 100(d). E.g. H.R. Deb. (13.4.1967) 1212; H.R. Deb. (8.12.1998) 1559; H.R. Deb. (8.6.2000) 17443.

[150] E.g. H.R. Deb. (1.7.1941) 591; H.R. Deb. (8.10.1936) 898; H.R. Deb. (12.2.2003) 11642; H.R. Deb. (23.6.2005) 74–5; (H.R. Deb. (17.8.2006) 69–70.

[151] E.g. H.R. Deb. (26.4.1977) 1198.

[152] H.R. Deb. (7.12.2000) 23808–9; H.R. Deb. (28.5.2003) 15200.

[153] H.R. Deb. (30.3.1999) 4668.

[154] S.O. 100(e); H.R. Deb. (21.5.1975) 2545; H.R. Deb. (25.8.1976) 525; H.R. Deb. (26.6.1996) 2788–9.

[155] H.R. Deb. (20.8.1969) 431.

[156] H.R. Deb. (31.8.2000) 19867.

[157] H.R. Deb. (16.11.1978) 2892.

[158] S.O. 74; see also May, 24th edn, p. 364.

[159] S.O. 100(e).

[160] E.g. H.R. Deb. (27.10.1987) 1482; H.R. Deb. (16.2.1988) 13; H.R. Deb. (8.2.1994) 505, 507, 508.

[161] Odgers, 6th edn, p. 309.

[162] S.O. 100(d).

[163] H.R. Deb. (7.12.2000) 23810; e.g. H.R. Deb. (28.11.2005) 29–30.

[164] H.R. Deb. (7.12.2000) 23810.

[165] H.R. Deb. (27.5.2004) 29388.

[166] See previous editions (6th edn, pp. 557–8).

[167] H.R. Deb. (7.9.1977) 801.

[168] H.R. Deb. (29.3.1977) 645–7.

[169] H.R. Deb. (19.9.1978) 1105.

[170] Standing Orders Committee, Report, H of R 1 (1962–63) 32.

[171] H.R. Deb. (7.9.1977) 801; but see for example H.R. Deb. (11.9.1996) 3984–5.

[172] H.R. Deb. (7.12.2000) 23810.

[173] H.R. Deb. (29.3.1977) 645–7.

[174] H.R. Deb. (24.5.1978) 2390–1, 2395, 2396–7.

[175] H.R. Deb. (4.3.1981) 415.

[176] May, 24th edn, p. 359.

[177] H.R. Deb. (14.10.1985) 1937–8.

[178] H.R. Deb. (13.12.1934) 1205; H.R. Deb. (7.6.1945) 2685; H.R. Deb. (29.9.1948) 937.

[179] H of R 1 (1962–63) 32.

[180] May, 24th edn, p. 361.

[181] H.R. Deb. (16.6.1939) 2085; H of R 1 (1962–63) 32; H.R. Deb. (27.9.1960) 1329 (statement by the Speaker).

[182] E.g. H.R. Deb. (10.2.1997) 471.

[183] E.g. H.R. Deb. (15.2.2006) 68–9; H.R. Deb. (17.6.2008) 5040.

[184] S.O. 98(d).

[185] H.R. Deb. (25.8.1977) 628; H.R. Deb. (19.5.1988) 2674.

[186] H.R. Deb. (20.11.1957) 2322.

[187] H.C. Deb. 543 (5.7.1955) 961–2.

[188] H.R. Deb. (6.10.1976) 1542.

[189] H.R. Deb. (4.4.1979) 1474.

[190] H.R. Deb. (5.5.1976) 1926.

[191] H.R. Deb. (8.6.2000) 17442.

[192] H.R. Deb. (21.6.2007) 87–8.

[193] H.R. Deb. (7.3.2000) 14020.

[194] H.R. Deb. (8.10.2003) 20841–2.

[195] H.R. Deb. (15.2.2000) 13424.

[196] H.R. Deb. (6.11.1951) 1542. It has been stated that questions seeking information about advice given to the Crown by law officers are in fact out of order, Lord Campion, An introduction to the procedure of the House of Commons, 3rd edn, Macmillan, London, 1958, p. 151.

[197] H.R. Deb. (19.9.1996) 4853.

[198] S.O. 98(d); see also Standing Orders Committee, Report, PP 129 (1964–66) 9.

[199] E.g. H.R. Deb. (27.2.2006) 33.

[200] S.O. 100(d).

[201] See H of R 1 (1962–63) 33.

[202] H.R. Deb. (4.11.1977) 2882.

[203] H.R. Deb. (20.8.2002) 5188, and, for example, see H.R. Deb. (20.6.2001) 28095.

[204] H.R. Deb. (20.8.2002) 5199.

[205] E.g. H.R. Deb. (30.5.1978) 2721; H.R. Deb. (4.6.2003) 16005–6; H.R. Deb. (16.6.2008) 4841–2.

[206] H.R. Deb. (7.10.1976) 1622. Questions have been permitted concerning matters in which a Governor-General had been involved before appointment to the office, e.g. H.R. Deb. (13.5.2003) 13961–74.

[207] S.O. 100(c).

[208] S.O. 100(c). E.g. H.R. Deb. (4.3.1998) 400; H.R. Deb. (1.12.2003) 23299–300; H.R. Deb. (1.12.2005) 82.

[209] H.R. Deb. (5.4.1979) 1560.

[210] H.R. Deb. (23.11.1978) 3333.

[211] See Ch. on ‘Motions’.

[212] H.R. Deb. (16.11.1978) 2892.

[213] E.g. H.R. Deb. (20.10.1999) 11982 (critical reference in question the day after a censure motion was defeated); and see H.R. Deb. (7.12.2000) 23808–10.

[214] H.R. Deb. (7.10.1976) 1628–9.

[215] VP 1951–53/117 (10.10.1951); H.R. Deb. (10.10.1951) 459–60.

[216] VP 1962–63/455 (1.5.1963).

[217] PP 354 (1986) 32.

[218] See also May, 24th edn, p. 360.

[219] S.O. 88.

[220] S.O. 100(c).

[221] VP 1956–57/167 (24.5.1956).

[222] H.R. Deb. (13.6.1951) 49; H.R. Deb. (26.9.1951) 37.

[223] H.R. Deb. (20.2.1979) 17; VP 1978–80/616 (20.2.1979).

[224] H.R. Deb. (23.11.1978) 3276.

[225] E.g. H.R. Deb. (25.8.1954) 587; H.R. Deb. (19–20.8.1959) 393; H.R. Deb. (29.9.1960) 1579–80; H.R. Deb. (31.8.1961) 787; H.R. Deb. (12.9.1961) 1081; H.R. Deb. (19.11.1987) 2466.

[226] H.R. Deb. (28.5.1998) 4135; H.R. Deb. (9.8.1999) 8095.

[227] S.O. 101(a). E.g. H.R. Deb. (23.3.2004) 26907; H.R. Deb. (11.8.2015) 7910.

[228] S.O. 101(c).

[229] S.O. 100(b); H.R. Deb. (27.8.1958) 777; H.R. Deb. (23.3.2004) 26909–10; 26911–12.

[230] May, 24th edn, pp. 363–4.

[231] H.R. Deb. (30.8.2000) 19683–4, and see H.R. Deb. (23.3.2004) 26903.

[232] H.R. Deb. (10.5.1979) 2058; H.R. Deb. (25.5.1988) 2975, 3047.

[233] H.R. Deb. (25.9.1986) 1433, 1484; VP 1985–87/1166–7 (25.9.1986).

[234] PP 354 (1986) 36.

[235] VP 1983–84/946 (8.10.1984); VP 1987–90/961 (30.11.1988). In the UK House of Commons a declaration of relevant interest is required, although it is recognised that this is often impractical in the case of oral questions, May, 24th edn, p. 366.

[236] H.R. Deb. (9.3.1971) 698.

[237] VP 1929–31/693 (26.6.1931); H.R. Deb. (25.6.1931) 3029–30; H.R. Deb. (26.6.1931) 3127–9. There were however earlier instances of incorporation, H.R. Deb. (10.9.1915) 6913, 6924.

[238] NP 23 (9.4.1981) 1347–1430 (691 by one Member).

[239] The 1996–2007 average was about 21 per sitting day.

[240] S.O. 102. For statistics see Appendix 21.

[241] S.O. 101(c).

[242] H.R. Deb. (12.12.1914) 1689.

[243] For further details concerning the format of the Notice Paper see Ch. on ‘Documents’.

[244] www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Chamber_documents/

[245] See Ch. on ‘The parliamentary calendar’.

[246] H.R. Deb. (12.5.1970) 1949; H.R. Deb. (28.11.1988) 3329. May, 24th edn, p. 364. However, see page 544 for comments on possible political consequences of failing to answer questions.

[247] E.g. H.R. Deb. (30–31.5.1972) 3289; H.R. Deb. (18.2.1988) 404.

[248] H.R. Deb. (25.5.1977) 1897–1903, and see The Table XLVI, 1978, p.109.

[249] H.R. Deb. (18.2.1988) 403.

[250] H.R. Deb. (5.9.1967) 823; H.R. Deb. (26.3.1969) 954.

[251] H.R. Deb. (3.12.1998) 1350, 1358–9.

[252] E.g. H.R. Deb. (30.5.1977) 2099; H.R. Deb. (18.8.1977) 496; H.R. Deb. (10.9.1996) 3823–4; H.R. Deb. (12.9.1996) 4269–70; H.R. Deb. (7.11.1996) 6825.

[253] H.R. Deb. (2.5.1978) 1591.

[254] E.g. H.R. Deb. (21.11.1978) 3075; H.R. Deb. (13.10.1994) 2005–6; and see statement by Speaker Andrew and references to questions containing imputation, H.R. Deb. (7.12.2000) 23808–10.

[255] H.R. Deb. (5.12.2013) 1792. For earlier examples see H.R. Deb. (3.3.1970) 19–20; H.R. Deb. (30.4.1987) 2278–9.

[256] E.g. H.R. Deb. (8.6.2000) 17449.

[257] H.R. Deb. (18.3.1987) 1026–28.

[258] E.g. H.R. Deb. (9.8.2005) 15; H.R. Deb. (23.6.2010) 6346–8.

[259] H.R. Deb. (25.6.1992) 3948; H.R. Deb. (7.2.1994) 420–1, 423; H.R. Deb. (10.9.1996) 3834; H.R. Deb. (17.2.2000) 13784, 89; H.R. Deb. (29.6.2000) 18719; H.R. Deb. (5.2.2009) 601.

[260] E.g. H.R. Deb. (31.5.1973) 2938–9; H.R. Deb. (11.9.1996) 4060; H.R. Deb. (22.6.1999) 6986, 6994–5; H.R. Deb. (17.2.2000) 13788; H.R. Deb. (30.9.2010) 354; H.R. Deb. (22.2.2016) 1647.

[261] E.g. H.R. Deb. (14.8.1969) 255; H.R. Deb. (23.3.1994) 1981–3 (Minister’s previous rostered day); H.R. Deb. (17.9.1996) 4408; H.R. Deb. (23.11.1999) 12359–60; H.R. Deb. (4.12.2003) 23843–4; H.R. Deb. (6.2.2007) 26; H.R. Deb. (2.12.2015) 14448–9.

[262] Debate has been adjourned to facilitate this, e.g. H.R. Deb. (10.2.2004) 24187, H.R. Deb. (26.2.2009) 1992–3, although this may not be necessary, e.g . H.R. Deb. (8.2.2006) 131 (between speakers); H.R. Deb. (6.2.2007) 65 (Member speaking made way by seeking leave to continue remarks).

[263] E.g. H.R. Deb. (21.9.1976) 1276; H.R. Deb. (18.8.1977) 496; H.R. Deb. (30.10.1996) 6249–50; H.R. Deb. (1.12.2005) 113; H.R. Deb. (27.5.2008) 3393–4.

[264] VP 2004–07/484 (9.8.2005).

[265] H.R. Deb. (9.12.1998) 1730.

[266] H.R. Deb. (10.2.2004) 24109.

[267] E.g. H.R. Deb. (17.10.1995) 2204; H.R. Deb. (16.6.2003) 16399.

[268] H.R. Deb. (9.9.2003) 19511; H.R. Deb. (7.9.2006) 71–2; H.R. Deb. (18.3.2010) 2999–3001.

[269] H.R. Deb. (2.9.1999) 9816–7.

[270] H.R. Deb. (4.5.1987) 2487; H.R. Deb. (12.5.1987) 2972.

[271] S.O. 104(a). May states ‘An answer should be confined to the points contained in the question, with such explanation only as renders the answer intelligible, though a certain latitude is permitted to Ministers of the Crown’. May, 24th edn, p. 366.

[272] S.O. 104(b).

[273] E.g. H.R. Deb. (19.10.2010) 677; H.R. Deb. (20.10.2010) 933, 938–9; H.R. Deb. (21.2.2011) 627; H.R. Deb. (22.3.2011) 2662.

[274] H.R. Deb. (11.8.2015) 7913; H.R. Deb. (13.10.2015) 10996.

[275] H.R. Deb. (10.9.1981) 1158; H.R. Deb. (29.6.2000) 18718.

[276] E.g. H.R. Deb. (13.9.1979) 1077–9; H.R. Deb. (18.9.1980) 1470; H.R. Deb. (24.5.1988) 2863; H.R. Deb. (9.3.1999) 3438; H.R. Deb. (6.9.2000) 20270, 20271; H.R. Deb. (20.6.2002) 4072;H.R. Deb. (10.8.2005) 79; H.R. Deb. (1.3.2006) 80; H.R. Deb. (18.2.2008) 520; H.R. Deb. (4.9.2008) 7240; H.R. Deb. (25.9.2008) 8692; H.R. Deb. (12.3.2009) 2530; H.R. Deb. (18.6.2009) 6577;H.R. Deb. (31.5.2010) 4558; H.R. Deb. (20.10.2010) 939; H.R. Deb. (19.9.2011) 10494; H.R. Deb. (13.3.2012) 2617.

[277] E.g. H.R. Deb. (2.3.2006) 82.

[278] H.R. Deb. (22.8.1979) 429; H.R. Deb. (25.8.1988) 382–4; H.R. Deb. (11.2.1999) 2508–12, 2519; H.R. Deb. (17.2.1999) 3006; H.R. Deb. (9.3.1999) 3438.

[279] E.g. H.R. Deb. (11.10.1999) 11202, 11203; H.R. Deb. (13.5.2003) 13977; H.R. Deb. (10.8.2005) 79; H.R. Deb. (12.10.2015) 10767; H.R. Deb. (21.10.2015) 12004; H.R. Deb. (25.11.2015) 13713.

[280] E.g. H.R. Deb. (18.10.2010) 443, 453; H.R. Deb. (20.10.2010) 933, 938–9; H.R. Deb. (24.11.2010) 3627, 3630; H.R. Deb. (22.3.2011) 2662; H.R. Deb. (23.8.2011) 9029; H.R. Deb. (20.3.2012) 3501.

[281] H.R. Deb. (29.6.1999) 7680; H.R. Deb. (17.8.2009) 7965, 7967.

[282] E.g. H.R. Deb. (29.6.2000) 18718; H.R. Deb. (7.12.2000) 23809; H.R. Deb. (18.6.2009) 6565; H.R. Deb. (22.11.2010) 3186; H.R. Deb. (21.9.2011) 11020–1.

[283] H.R. Deb. (27.8.1981) 856, 857; H.R. Deb. (9.9.81) 1063–4. And see H.R. Deb. (22.3.2012) 4008.

[284] H.R. Deb. (10.9.1981) 1160.

[285] E.g. H.R. Deb. (4.4.1984) 1352; H.R. Deb. (24.11.1988) 3208; H.R. Deb. (17.8.2000) 19277–8. H.R. Deb. (18.3.2010) 2999.

[286] E.g. H.R. Deb. (21.9.2011) 11024.

[287] E.g. H.R. Deb. (21.9.2011) 11040.

[288] E.g. H.R. Deb. (20.9.2011) 10811; H.R. Deb. (21.9.2011) 11027, 11035.

[289] E.g. H.R. Deb. (14.9.2011) 10084, 10088; H.R. Deb. (22.9.2011) 11232, 11242.

[290] E.g. H.R. Deb. (19.9.2011) 10494; H.R. Deb. (21.9.2011) 11028, 11034; H.R. Deb. (13.2.2012) 854; H.R. Deb. (15.2.2012) 1393.

[291] H.R. Deb. (28.11.1988) 3329, and see statement by Speaker Andrew, H.R. Deb. (7.12.2000) 23809.

[292] H.R. Deb. (28.11.1988) 3329; H.R. Deb. (28.6.2000) 18475–6; H.R. Deb. (18.6.2009) 6570.

[293] H.R. Deb. (4.9.2008) 7217, 7226.

[294] E.g. H.R. Deb. (3.6.2010) 5221, 5226.

[295] Standing Committee on Procedure, The standing orders and practices which govern the conduct of Question Time. PP 354 (1986) 45.

[296] Standing Committee on Procedure, The standing orders and practices governing questions seeking information. PP 179 (1992) 15.

[297] Standing Committee on Procedure, About time: bills questions and working hours. PP 194 (1993) 22–3.

[298] S.O. 104(c). This provision was introduced at the start of the 43rd Parliament (2010), initially at four minutes, and changed to three minutes in February 2012. Previously no time limit applied. An extension may be granted, e.g. VP 2010–13/89 (19.10.2010); VP 2010–13/185 (16.11.2010). The clock is paused during a point of order.

[299] Negatived on division. H.R. Deb. (21.10.2010) 1148–9; H.R. Deb. (28.10.2010) 2066–7; H.R. Deb. (14.8.2017) 8271; H.R. Deb. (17.8.2017) 8900. In such cases the Speaker has ruled that the clock should be paused, and the answer resumed when the motion is negatived.

[300] S.O. 105(a).

[301] H.R. Deb. (9.12.1976) 3688–9.

[302] E.g. H.R. Deb. (9.5.2007) 203.

[303] H.R. Deb. (16.2.1982) 144.

[304] H.R. Deb. (7.4.1970) 781, question No. 1.

[305] See H.R. Deb. (26.11.2003) 23105.

[306] E.g. H.R. Deb. (14.5.1997) 3650–51.

[307] H.R. Deb. (15.8.1972) 147–8.

[308] VP 2004–07/484 (9.8.2005).

[309] H.R. Deb. (16.2.1971) 73, question No. 1570.

[310] H.R. Deb. (28.11.1986) 4028, question No. 1239.

[311] H.R. Deb. (3.6.1986) 4497–8.

[312] S.O. 105(b). See also Procedure Committee reports, PP 179 (1992) 18; PP 194 (1993) 29.