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The point of order can come after the urgent questions.
Mr SpeakerSpeaker·Engagements·03 Jun 2026Factual · official legal institutional
Reasoning & Evidence21 Jul 2026
The claim that "the point of order can come after the urgent questions" is accurate and consistent with the established order of business in the House of Commons. 1. **Guide to Parliamentary Work (GOV.UK)** lays out the sequence explicitly: Para 31 states that Urgent Questions take place after question time; Para 33 states that "Oral statements by a Government Minister follow any UQs"; and Para 35 states that "At this point in the Parliamentary day, Members may raise Points of Order with the Speaker." The order is therefore: Question Time → UQs → Statements → Points of Order. 2. **Erskine May (Parliament's authoritative procedural guide)** confirms the order of business, listing urgent questions and ministerial statements as taking precedence over other items that come later in the day's proceedings. 3. An academic procedural source (ebrary.net) confirms: "Usually at about this time [after statements], MPs will raise points of order with the Speaker" and notes that while a point of order on the business actually before the House may be raised at any time, the normal slot for general points of order is after urgent questions and statements. The Speaker's statement in context was correcting an MP who attempted to raise a point of order before urgent questions had been dealt with. The Speaker correctly stated that points of order come after statements and urgent questions, and that the point of order could therefore come after the urgent questions, consistent with the established procedural order of business. Sources: Guide to Parliamentary Work (GOV.UK), https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guide-to-parliamentary-work/guide-to-parliamentary-work-html; Erskine May — Monday to Thursday, https://erskinemay.parliament.uk/section/4686/monday-to-thursday; "After Question Time and up to 'the commencement of public business'" (ebrary.net), https://ebrary.net/65205/political_science/question_time_commencement_public_business
From speech
Points of order come after statements and urgent questions—[Interruption.] You did not ask a question, though—so the point of order can come after the urgent questions.
Sources opened
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https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/business/urgent-questions/
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