question time

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1. question time - Noun

2. Question time - Proper noun

Meaning

a period during a parliamentary session when members of British Parliament may ask questions of the ministers

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But first, the news: The House of Commons was sealed off today after police chased an escaped lunatic through the front door during Prime Minister's question time. A spokesman at Scotland Yard said it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. Ronnie Barker

After half an hour of debate, Cr Spagnolo’s motion to include public question time in the live stream was passed 8-7. Source: Internet

Although the House of Lords may scrutinise the executive through Question Time and through its committees, it cannot bring down the Government. Source: Internet

As polling day loomed, some aides would have liked Corbyn to make more aggressive attacks on Johnson, whose loose relationship with the truth was openly laughed at by the Question Time audience when the pair met in a head-to-head debate. Source: Internet

Ben Morton, Liberal Member for Tangney, during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on Feb. 13, 2019. Source: Internet

At Question Time in the House of Commons the Conservative MP Captain Alan Graham said: "Is the honourable Member aware that it is very necessary to leave Lord Baldwin his gates in order to protect him from the just indignation of the mob?" Source: Internet

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