After Question Time (and any urgent questions that may have been allowed) a government minister may make an oral statement to the House. Notice of statements is not usually given until the day they are to be made.
House of Commons
Oral statements are made after Question Time (or at 11am on a Friday). The statements usually relate to matters of policy or government actions.
A business statement announces the future business of the Commons and usually takes place on Thursdays at 11.30am.
At the end of a statement MPs can respond or question the government minister on its contents.
House of Lords
Commons statements will sometimes be repeated in the Lords at an appropriate time to fit in with the main business.
Personal statements
Other statements are occasionally made, for example, by an MP who has resigned as a Minister or wishes to correct an error in a statement they have made to the House of Commons. These statements can only be made with permission of the Speaker.
In the House of Lords a Peer can make a short personal statement in order to correct information given in a speech by them or to reply to claims made about them in the House.
Read ministerial statements
Ministerial statements are published in Hansard, the edited record of what was said in Parliament.
Read Hansard