Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 22 January 1991.
Graham Allen
Shadow Minister (Social Security)
12:00,
22 January 1991
In view of the inadequacy of that answer, I give notice that I shall seek to raise the question on the Adjournment of the House.
An adjournment is a break in the course of parliamentary business.
The House adjourns at the end of each day's business.
On a daily basis the House adjourns, or breaks, half an hour after the moving of the adjournment debate.
The House is also adjourned for several holiday periods during the session.
The more lengthy adjournments - often coinciding with the academic calendar - are known as recesses.
