BBC reports the Queen’s Speech will be on October 14th. Parliament to be prorogued after two week sitting in September.
Prorogation brings to an end nearly all parliamentary business. Public Bills may be carried over from one session to the next, subject to agreement
Motions lapse when the House becomes prorogued, questions which have not been answered fall, nothing more will happen with them. If they have not been answered then they will stay unanswered. No motions or questions can be tabled during a prorogation.
Select committee inquiries continue, though no committee may meet during prorogation.
MPs and Peers cannot formally debate government policy and legislation, submit parliamentary questions for response by government departments, scrutinise government activity through parliamentary committees or introduce legislation of their own.
For prorogation to last more than a month is unprecedented in modern times. Since the 1980s prorogation has rarely lasted longer than two weeks and, between sessions during a Parliament, has typically lasted less than a week.
Prorogation being a prerogative power, there is no obvious legal mechanism by which Parliament could prevent its exercise otherwise than by passing legislation to constrain it.
More info on prorogation from @commonslibrary here researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-…
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