ABSTRACT
At one extreme authors have the question asked by a Member on something of concern to constituency, at the other extreme a motion of censure proposed by the Opposition, with a major debate on some matter of high inter-party controversy. Although they have had to classify various procedures on the floor of the House as non-financial and non-legislative they must recognise that pressure on the Government to remedy some alleged omission may involve pressure for new legislation or for new expenditure. Questions and adjournments do not provide a complete means of checking the Executive's work. Questions serve many purposes, local, regional and nation-wide; opinions on their usefulness may differ but the ministers' duty to deal with them is some safeguard against arbitrary action anywhere in the central government's machinery.
