Requests and inquiries

This article is about motions in parliamentary procedure. For access to information held by the government, see Freedom of information laws by country. For the business practice, Request For Information (RFI), see Request for information. For other uses of "requests", see Request. For other uses of "inquiries", see Inquiry (disambiguation).

In parliamentary procedure, requests and inquiries are motions used by members of a deliberative assembly to obtain information or to do or have something done that requires permission of the assembly. Except for a request to be excused from a duty, these requests and inquiries are not debatable nor amendable.