division_name: Delegated Legislation &#8212; Backbench Business &#8212; [1st Allotted Day-First Half] &#8212; Information for Backbenchers on Statements
motion: <p class="" pid="c.244.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.244.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House commends the Speaker on the action he has taken over the past year to reassert the principle that Ministers ought to make statements to the House before they are made elsewhere; notes that paragraph 9.1 of the Ministerial Code says that when Parliament is in session, the most important announcements of Government policy should be made in the first instance in Parliament; believes that compliance with this principle is essential for backbenchers to be able to represent the interests of their constituents and hold the Government to account; and invites the Procedure Committee to consider how the rules of the House could be better used or, if necessary, changed to ensure compliance with this principle and to develop a protocol for the release of information.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="c.288.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes"> Motion made, and Question put forthwith (<phrase class="standing-order" code="15" pwmotiontext="yes">Standing Order No. 15</phrase>),</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c.288.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That, at this day's sitting, proceedings on the Motion in the name of Sir George Young relating to Use of the Chamber (United Kingdom Youth Parliament) may be proceeded with, though opposed, until any hour.-<i> (</i><i> Miss Chloe Smith</i><i> .)</i></p>
  
  <p pid="c.288.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes"><i> The House divided:</i> Ayes 139, Noes 10.</p>