Standing Orders of the House of Commons - Private Business
Review the rules that regulate the conduct of private business in the House of Commons, including private bill procedure.
Latest Version - including changes made to allow electronic deposit on the High Speed 2 Hybrid Bill and to allow appointment of an assessor of environmental statement responses.
Previous versions
- Standing Orders - Private Business - complete version incorporating new amendments as at November 2017 and July 2019 (PDF version)
- Standing Orders - Private Business - complete version incorporating new amendments as at November 2017 and July 2019 (HTML version)
- Standing Orders - Private Business - revised June 2017 (PDF version)
- Standing Orders - Private Business - revised June 2017
- Standing Orders - Private Business - amendments revised June 2017 (PDF 145 KB)
- Collated issue of Standing Order 224A and amended SOs 12, 12A, 27 and 55 - July 2014
- Collated issue of Standing Order 224A and amended SOs 12, 12A, 27 and 55 - July 2014 (PDF 31 KB)
- Electronic Deposit of Documents (High Speed 2) - June 2013
- Electronic Deposit of Documents (High Speed 2) - June 2013 (PDF 189 KB)
- Amendment of Private Business Standing Orders - June 2013
- Amendment of Private Business Standing Orders - June 2013 (PDF 189 KB)
- Standing Orders - Private Business - October 2005
- Standing Orders - Private Business - October 2005 (PDF 658 KB)