Arrangement of Public Business

(1) Public Business shall consist of Motions and Public Bills. (2) Subject to the provision of these Standing Orders, Government Business shall have precedence on every day. (3) Government Business shall consist of Motions proposed to be made and Bills sponsored by Ministers and shall be set down in such order as the Government think fit. (4) Private Members’ business shall be set down on the Order Paper for a particular day in the order in which it was entered in the Order Book for that day, and business so entered shall take precedence over any business postponed from the previous day.