Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 2:41 pm on 1 July 2020.
Eleanor Laing
Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Ways and Means
2:41,
1 July 2020
I will now suspend the House for three minutes in order to have a safe turnover of personnel and cleanliness at the Dispatch Box.
Sitting suspended.
On resuming—
If you've ever seen inside the Commons, you'll notice a large table in the middle - upon this table is a box, known as the dispatch box. When members of the Cabinet or Shadow Cabinet address the house, they speak from the dispatch box. There is a dispatch box for the government and for the opposition. Ministers and Shadow Ministers speak to the house from these boxes.
