Thursday, 29 March 2001
[Relevant documents: Second Special Report, Session 1997-98, HC 781, Second Special Report, Session 1998-99, HC 484, and First Special Report, Session 2000-01, HC 148, from the Northern Ireland...
Opened in December 1999, Westminster Hall is aimed at fostering a new style of debate. Sessions are open to all MPs, who sit in a horseshoe arrangement which is meant to encourage constructive rather than confrontational debate.
The meetings are presided over by a Deputy Speaker and there are no votes.
