HOUSE OF LORDS - United Kingdom Parliament

Adjournment
3.09 At the end of business a member of the government moves “That
the House do now adjourn.” The Lord Speaker puts the Question, but
does not collect the voices because this Question is not usually debated.
If any member of the House wishes to debate it, the Lord Speaker should
be informed beforehand.
3.10 As soon as the Lord Speaker has put the Question for the
adjournment she leaves the Chamber by the temporal side and the Bar,
preceded by the Mace, and returns in procession to her room via the
Law Lords’ and Library Corridors.
3.11 If a Deputy Speaker is on the Woolsack when the House
adjourns, the above ceremony is observed, but the Deputy Speaker
leaves the procession in the Peers’ Lobby.
Secret sittings
3.12 If the House wishes to meet in secret, a motion of which notice is
not required is made to that effect. 1 When an order for a secret sitting is
made, the Chamber is cleared of everyone except members of the
House, the Clerks at the Table and Black Rod. Members of the House of
Commons are not required to withdraw.
Grand Committee
3.13 Certain types of business may take place in Grand Committee.
The procedure in a Grand Committee is the same for each type of
business as the procedure would have been in the House when such
business is considered, except that divisions may not take place in Grand
Committee. 2
3.14 A Grand Committee is a committee of unlimited membership.
Any member of the House may participate in it. Only one Grand
Committee sits on any one day. The place of meeting is usually the
Moses Room.
3.15 The following types of business may take place in Grand
Committee:
1 SO 15.
2 Report to the Leader from the Group on sittings of the House: HL Paper (1993–94) 83,
paragraph 20; Procedure 1st Rpt 2005–06.
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