Glossary

Abstain

Acts of Parliament

Adjournment debates

Adjournment motions

Affirmation

Affirmative procedure

All-party groups

Allocation of time motions

Allowances

Amendments

Another place

Aye and No Lobbies

Backbench (backbenchers)

Ballot Bills

Bar of the House

Baron

Baroness

Bicameral system

Bills

Bishops

Black Rod

Budget (Finance Bill)

Business motions

Business Questions

By-elections

Cabinet

Carry-over motions/bills

Catching the Speaker's eye

Censure motion

Chairman of Ways and Means

Chamber

Chancellor of the Exchequer

Chiltern Hundreds

Church of England measures

Clauses

Clerk of the House

Clerk of the Parliaments

Closure motions

Coalition government

Code of Conduct for Members of the Lords

Code of Conduct for MPs

Coming into force

Command Papers

Commencement regulations

Committal motions

Committee of Selection

Committee of the whole House

Committee stage

Confidence motion

Consolidated Fund

Consolidation Bill

Constituencies (Constituents)

Constitution

Consultation paper

Contempt

Content and Not Content Lobbies

Conventions

Cranborne Money

Crossbench Convenor

Crossbench Peers

Crossing the floor

Crown appointments

Crown Prerogative

Debate on the Address

Debates

Deferred divisions

Delegated legislation

Deposited Papers

Deputy Speakers

Despatch boxes

Devolution

Devolved and reserved matters

Dilatory motion

Dissolution

Division lobbies

Divisions

Double insistence

Double majority votes

Draft affirmative

Draft Bills

Draft negative

Dropped Bill/Order

Dummy Bills

Earl

Early Day Motions

Ecclesiastical Committee

Effective Orders

Emergency debates

English Votes for English Law (EVEL)

Equality of votes

Erskine May

Estimates day

Examiner of Petitions

Explanatory Memorandum

Explanatory Notes

Father of the House

Filibustering

Financial Privilege

First Past the Post

First reading

Floor of the House

Free vote

Frontbench (Frontbencher)

General elections

Give way

Government

Government Bills

Government defeat

Grand Committees

Green Papers

Guillotine motions

Hand-out Bill

Hansard (Official Report)

Henry VIII clauses

Hereditary Peers

House of Commons Commission

Hung Parliament

Hybrid Bills

Hybrid Instruments

Impeachment

Introduction

Joint committees

Journal

King's Speech

Law Lords

Leader of the House

Leader of the Opposition (Commons)

Legislation

Legislative consent motion

Legislative Reform Orders (LROs)

Life Peers

Lobby (a Lobby)

Lobbying

Long title of a Bill

Lord Chancellor

Lord Chief Justice

Lord Great Chamberlain

Lord of Parliament

Lord Speaker

Lords Spiritual and Temporal

Mace (The)

Made affirmative

Made negative

Maiden speech

Manifesto

Manor of Northstead

Manuscript amendments

Members of Parliament (MP)

Ministerial statements

Ministers

Minority government

Moment of interruption

Money bills

Money resolution

Motion of no confidence

Motion to regret

Motion to take note

Motions

Named day questions

Naming of a Member

Negative procedure

Nodding through/ On the nod

Non-fatal motion

Norman French

Notices of Questions

Oath of Allegiance

Online voting

Opposition (The)

Opposition days

Oral Questions

Order Paper

Orders in Council

Orders of Council

Osmotherly Rules

Outlawries Bill

Pairing

Panel of chairs

Parliament

Parliament Acts

Parliamentary Agent

Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman

Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards

Parliamentary Counsel

Parliamentary Private Secretary

Parliamentary privilege

Parliamentary procedure

Parliamentary Questions (PQs)

Parliamentary Sovereignty

Peer (member of the House of Lords)

Petition

Ping-pong

Point of order

Portcullis

Post-legislative scrutiny

Prayer motion

Prayers

Pre-election period

Pre-legislative scrutiny

Presentation Bills

Press Gallery

Primary legislation

Prime Minister

Prime Minister's Question Time

Private Bills

Private business

Private Members' Bills

Private notice question

Privy Council

Procedure Committee

Programme motion

Proportional representation

Proposed negative statutory instrument

Prorogation

Proxy voting

Public Bill Committee (PBC)

Public Bills

Public business

Public galleries

Questions (Parliamentary)

Questions for Short Debate

Quorum

Reasoned amendments

Recall of Parliament

Recess

Referendum

Register of Members' Financial Interests

Remaining orders

Remaining stages

Remedial Orders

Report Stage

Retreads

Royal Assent

Salisbury Doctrine

Schedules

Scrutiny (parliamentary scrutiny)

Second Reading

Second Reading Committee

Secondary Legislation

Secretary of State

Select committees

Serjeant at Arms

Session

Sessional Diary

Sessional Orders

Sessional Return

Sewel Convention

Shadow Cabinet

Short Money

Shuffle

Sifting period

Sittings

Speaker (The)

Speaker's rulings

Special Procedure Order

Standing Orders

Statements

Statute

Statutory Instruments SIs

Strangers

Sub judice

Sunset clause

Supplementary questions

Supply bills

Surgeries

Swearing in

Table

Tellers

Ten Minute Rule Bills

Test Roll

The 1922 Committee (the 22)

Third reading

Topical Questions

Unparliamentary language

Unprinted papers

Unwhipped vote

Urgent Questions

Usual channels

Vote Bundle

Votes and Proceedings

Wash-up

Ways and Means

Ways and Means resolution

West Lothian question

Westminster Hall debates

Whips

White Papers

Will write letters

Woolsack

Wrecking amendments

Writ of summons

Writs

Written questions

Yeoman Usher