The Backbench Business Committee of the British House of Commons was created on 15 June 2010 through the adoption of a new standing order.
[1] It was created soon after 2010 general election, but had been proposed during the previous Parliament by the Wright Committee on Reform of the House of Commons in its report of 12 November 2009.
This includes Thursday sittings in the parallel debating chamber, known as Westminster Hall, which are considered half days.
The amendments to Standing Order 14 give the committee 35 days per session, of which at least 27 are taken on the floor of the House (as opposed to Westminster Hall).
Ministers of the Crown, Parliamentary Private Secretaries, and 'principal opposition frontbench spokespersons' are prohibited from standing for election as chair or as a member.