Procedure Committee
Commons select committee, since 1 November 1978. Its page on the Parliament website.
The Procedure Committee considers the practice and procedure of the House in the conduct of its public business. It is appointed under Standing Order No. 147. It can make recommendations to the House about the operation of the House’s Standing Orders for public business, and any other aspect of House procedure and practice (as generally described in Erskine May).
Inquiries
- Written Parliamentary Questions (24 November 2025)
- Sub judice resolution in the House of Commons (22 May 2025)
- Written Parliamentary Questions: Departmental performance in Session 2024-26 (28 April 2025)
- Electronic voting (29 January 2025)
- Call lists (16 December 2024)
- Elections within the House of Commons (11 December 2024)
- Status of independent Members of Parliament (9 December 2024 to 23 October 2025)
- Proxy Voting: Review of arrangements introduced in the 2024–25 Session (26 November 2024 to 16 October 2025)
- Written Parliamentary Questions: Departmental performance in Session 2023–24 (21 November 2024 to 27 April 2025)
- Work of the Leader of the House (20 November 2024)
- Written Parliamentary Questions: Departmental performance in Session 2022–23 (21 March 2024 to 30 May 2024)
- Commons scrutiny of Secretaries of State in the House of Lords (23 November 2023 to 30 May 2024)
- Proxy voting: Review of illness and injury pilot (13 October 2022 to 30 May 2024)
- Written parliamentary questions: Departmental performance in Session 2021–22 (20 July 2022 to 1 November 2022)
- Correcting the record (21 June 2022 to 30 May 2024)
- Accountability hearings (16 May 2022 to 30 May 2024)
- Presence of babies in the Chamber and Westminster Hall (17 January 2022 to 30 May 2024)
- Voting by proxy (20 September 2021 to 30 May 2024)
- Written parliamentary questions (11 May 2021 to 20 March 2024)
- Definition of parliamentary proceedings (2 March 2021 to 30 May 2024)
- The procedure of the House of Commons and the territorial constitution (24 September 2020 to 30 May 2024)
- Written Parliamentary questions: monitoring in Session 2019-21 (23 September 2020 to 13 September 2021)
- Procedure under coronavirus restrictions (10 April 2020 to 30 June 2021)
- Proxy voting: review of pilot arrangements (4 March 2020 to 24 September 2020)
- Proxy voting: review of pilot arrangements inquiry (9 September 2019 to 9 September 2019)
- Voting procedure in the House of Commons inquiry (19 July 2019 to 19 July 2019)
- The powers of the House of Commons to call for papers inquiry (16 January 2019 to 9 September 2019)
- Evaluation of pilot arrangements for allocating Estimates day debates inquiry (6 November 2018 to 24 January 2018)
- Motions under section 13(1) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 inquiry (15 October 2018 to 15 October 2018)
- Should there be a Commons Budget Committee? inquiry (11 July 2018 to 11 July 2018)
- Establishing select committees in a new Parliament inquiry (16 May 2018 to 16 May 2018)
- Voting by proxy in the House of Commons inquiry (31 January 2018 to 29 January 2019)
- Exiting the European Union: scrutiny of delegated legislation inquiry (13 September 2017 to 13 September 2017)
- Delegated powers in the 'Great Repeal Bill' inquiry (1 February 2017 to 1 May 2017)
- Written PQs answering performance in 2015–16 inquiry (3 February 2016 to 1 May 2018)
- Scrutiny of Government’s Supply Estimates inquiry (13 January 2016 to 13 January 2016)
- Private Members' Bills inquiry (14 December 2015 to 14 December 2015)
- English votes for English laws Standing Orders (16 July 2015 to 16 July 2015)
- Former Leaders of the House of Commons (10 February 2015 to 10 March 2015)
- Written Parliamentary question answering performance in 2013–14 (15 October 2014 to 1 May 2017)
- Inquiry into e-petitions (14 May 2014 to 12 February 2015)
- Minority party participation in the Backbench Business Committee (12 May 2014 to 23 June 2014)
- Business in Westminster Hall (1 May 2014 to 17 December 2014)
- European Scrutiny in the House of Commons (10 March 2014 to 23 February 2015)
- Inquiry into delegated legislation (23 January 2014 to 7 May 2014)
- Programming (5 December 2013 to 5 December 2013)
- Early Day Motions (23 April 2013 to 18 July 2013)
- Private Members' bills (23 November 2012 to 16 September 2013)
- E-tabling of written questions (19 November 2012 to 1 January 2013)
- Review of the operation of the Backbench Business Committee (21 February 2012 to 1 April 2012)
- Sittings of the House and the Parliamentary Calendar (7 March 2011 to 1 April 2012)
- Referral of complaints of breach of privilege (9 February 2011 to 1 April 2012)
- Lay membership of Standards and Privileges Committee (9 February 2011 to 1 April 2012)
- Use of hand-held electronic devices in the Chamber and committees (20 January 2011 to 1 April 2012)
- Procedure Committee: Ministerial Statements to Parliament (13 September 2010 to 1 April 2012)
Organisations it has heard from most
- House of Commons (18)
- Cabinet Office (2)
- Hansard Society (2)
- Institute for Government (2)
- Leader of the House of Commons (2)
- Attorney General's Office (1)
- Centenary Action (1)
- Constitution Unit, University College London (1)
- Department for Education (1)
- Department for Health and Social Care (1)
- Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1)
- Department of Health and Social Care (1)
- Fawcett Society (1)
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (1)
- Full Fact (1)