Written questions can be tabled on any sitting day or on a non-sitting Friday when the House is not in recess. A sitting day is a day when the House is meeting.
Questions can be tabled in person up to:
- 10.30pm on Monday
- 7.30pm on Tuesday and Wednesday
- 5.30pm on Thursday and
- 3pm on Friday
or the time the House finishes meeting if that’s earlier. Questions received after the deadlines may be treated as if they had been tabled on the next eligible day.
Special arrangements are made for recesses, and these are printed in the Announcements section of the Order Paper before each recess.
The online MemberHub has a cut off of:
- 6.30pm on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays
- 5.30pm on Thursdays and
- 2.30pm on Fridays
Questions submitted online after those times will be treated as if they had been tabled on the next eligible day. They will also count towards the next day’s quota of 20 online questions.