Sentence examples for oral questions from inspiring English sources

Shadow cabinet ministers already debate each other at oral questions, so it is not clear what purpose this would serve.

Source: The Independent 7,546 – Written and oral questions from the House of Lords to the government in 2010/2011.

The watchdog has said delays come in part because officers do not co-operate enough, for instance declining to answer oral questions and providing written responses instead.

Oral questions from Thomas come just weeks after the death of conservative justice Antonin Scalia, whose ideologies closely matched Thomas's own.

I believe that if we are to have members of the House of Lords as Secretaries of State, they should be accountable for oral questions in the Commons.

A casual observer of Commons oral questions the previous day might have assumed that this last concession was the government's intention all along.

My oral question suggested that: "The role of our brave soldiers is to act as human shields for ministers' reputations.

During that entire period, he did not once speak or ask a written or oral question in the House of Lords.

After leading on a Lords oral question about social mobility, he found himself drinking tea in the House of Lords, "telling Lord Bates that he did well," he said.

Up to this point, he had not spoken in the Lords, nor asked a written or oral question since he started claiming his attendance allowances.

David M. Morris, the consultant who is preparing them, said he might propose a selection process, called an assessment center, that could include exams that cover practical skills, an oral question-and-answer session in front of multiple observers, or both.