Urgent question on Gibraltar
20 November 2013
On Wednesday 20 November 2013, Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Mark Simmonds, responded to an Urgent Question from MP for Bromley and Chislehurst, Robert Neill, in the House of Commons, on the unauthorised incursion of a Spanish naval vessel into British territorial waters at the entrance to Gibraltar harbour on 19 November
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About urgent questions
At times MPs may want to put an urgent question to a Minister. If a matter of public importance has arisen, which an MP believes requires an immediate answer from a government minister, they may apply to the Speaker to put forward such a question.
The relevant government department would be informed at once. If the Speaker agrees, the question will be asked after that day’s Question Time.
Once the MP has asked the main question, they are allowed to ask a supplementary question. Other MPs will then be called to ask further questions on the same subject.
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