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Queen's recommendation

9.5The Queen's recommendation is a technical form of great importance in financial procedure, as it is required in the Commons to sanction the proposal of a charge upon public funds and thus reserves the initiation of expenditure to the Crown, as embodied in the Government of the day. The Queen's recommendation is required for motions which involve any public expenditure or grant of money not included in the annual estimates, or which would have the effect of releasing or compounding any sum of money owing to the Crown.1

The Queen's recommendation is normally notified by the Office of Parliamentary Counsel on behalf of a responsible Minister to the Commons Public Bill Office when such a motion is tabled. The fact that the recommendation has been signified is entered on the Order Paper on which appears the notice of motion to which it relates.

Footnotes

  1. 1. See SO No 48 and paras 35.1–35.14.