question time

noun

, Parliamentary Procedure.

a time set aside in a session during which members of a parliament may question a minister or ministers regarding state affairs.

question time

(in parliamentary bodies of the British type) a period of time set aside each day for members to question government ministers

First recorded in 1850–55

The communications consultant, 42, a former BBC Question Time producer, is an Old Etonian and the nephew of the Duke of Richmond.

Rivals as well as the Opposition taunted the PM with the baths during Question Time.

Question Time for the President: In January 2010, President Obama attended a House GOP retreat to debate health care publicly.

Alex Massie on how his Question Time performance saved his skin—for the moment, anyway.

And the grassroots effort to make "Question Time" happen again—well, the website hasn't been updated in more than a year.

I must ask honourable members not to turn Question time into a debate.

In this atmosphere the usual badinage of Question-time passed almost unnoticed.

Then followed question time, which was a lively affair; for questions mean marks, and Nippers will sell their souls for marks.

Some facts bearing, more or less, on the situation were revealed at Question-time.

Saunderson set him agog at Question time, by rubbing him down wrong way.

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