The House of Commons is the elected Chamber of the UK Parliament and is located within the Palace of Westminster which remains the property of Her Majesty The Queen.

The political party with the largest number of Members of Parliament commanding a majority of votes in the Chamber, becomes the Government (presently Labour Party) and places its legislative and fiscal programmes before Parliament for endorsement or otherwise.  Ministers serving in the various Departments of State come before the Commons on a rota basis to answer Parliamentary Questions on their conduct of office.  The Prime Minister answers for the Government every Wednesday at a thirty-minutes long Prime Minister's Question Time, where he faces the Leader of Her Majesty's Opposition and the shadow government (Conservative Party) and the minor parties the largest of which is the Liberal Democrats.

The Commons has a range of Select Committees which monitor the activities of a Department of State and also a senior committee scrutinising European Union directives, agreed by the Council of Ministers and which will apply to the UK.
 
Westminster Hall is a small debating chamber, an adjunct to the main House Chamber, where backbench MPs, ministers and shadow-ministers debate issues of special interest or constituency concern.