Prime Minister's Questions
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This article is about questions in Parliament to the prime minister of the United Kingdom. For regular ministerial questioning, see Question time. For the TV programme, see Question Time (TV programme).
"PMQs" redirects here. For other uses, see PMQ (disambiguation).
Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs, officially known as Questions to the Prime Minister, while colloquially known as Prime Minister's Question Time) is a constitutional convention in the United Kingdom, currently held as a single session every Wednesday at noon when the House of Commons is sitting, during which the prime minister answers questions from members of Parliament (MPs).[1]
The Institute for Government has described PMQs as "the most distinctive and internationally famous feature of British politics."[2]