Oral Answers to Questions — Justice – in the House of Commons am 3:33 pm ar 10 Tachwedd 2009.
John Bercow
Chair, Members Estimate Committee, Chair, Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, Speaker of the House of Commons, Chair, Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, Speaker of the House of Commons, Chair, Members Estimate Committee, Chair, Speaker's Committee for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, Chair, Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission
3:33,
10 Tachwedd 2009
I wish to make a statement about the two minutes' silence. As the House will know, tomorrow is Remembrance day and, exceptionally, the House will sit at 2.30 pm. At 11 am, right hon. and hon. Members, their staff and officials in the House will be attending to their duties. I regard it as appropriate that we should join the nation in observing the two minutes' silence at 11 o'clock, so that we might remember those who gave their lives for their country and to help preserve our democratic freedoms. I should be grateful if those responsible for chairing Committees at that time would make appropriate arrangements. Instructions will also be issued to heads of House Departments, so that those members of staff who wish to observe the two minutes' silence will be enabled to do so.
