Prime Minister’s Questions

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Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) (officially Questions to the Prime Minister) is a constitutional convention in the United Kingdom, where every Wednesday when the House of Commons is sitting the Prime Minister spends half an hour answering questions from Members of Parliament (MPs).[1] Until 1997, Prime Minister's Questions was twice-weekly in 15 minute slots on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3.15-3.30pm while Parliament was sitting.

Other parliamentary democracies incorporate questions to the Prime Minister into a Question Time during which any government minister is able to give replies, rather than only the Prime Minister. In Canada, a similar convention is known as Question Period and occurs daily both in the federal Parliament and in the provincial legislatures. In Australia and New Zealand the period is called Question Time. In the Irish Dáil, the practice is called Leaders' Questions. In the Scottish Parliament, Northern Ireland Assembly and National Assembly for Wales this practice is called First Minister's Questions. India's Lok Sabha has a Question Hour. In Israel, it has been recently suggested that such practice should commence in the Knesset twice a year. Sweden's prime minister also answers direct questions from the parliament, every Thursday.