The Dewan Rakyat will fix Tuesdays and Thursdays as the minister's question time to allow the prime minister and his cabinet members to answer queries from lawmakers on current issues.

Announcing this at a press conference, Dewan Rakyat speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia said the House will allocate half an hour for each minister, whereby six ministers will do the answering.

Lawmakers need to give the relevant ministers a 24-hour notice, he added.

"The lawmakers need to ask their questions within one minute, while the ministers need to answer them within three minutes.

"This is to prevent the negative perception of the community that Parliament does not give space (for lawmakers to ask questions)," Pandikar said.

When asked why the "prime minister's question time" ended up as "minister's question time", he said that it was the same.

"This is the same. Just the question of name because during the minister's question time, the prime minister will be around to answer, the ministers will be around to answer too," he said.

The minister's question time, together with two other proposals, which the cabinet approved in late January, will be tabled to the House for debate in this session, which sits until April 7.

The is the first phase of parliamentary reform brought about by Pandikar. Three out of four of his proposals were accepted by the cabinet.

The Parliament will also reduce the period for submission of questions from MPs to 10 days from the existing 14 days.

The cabinet also approved the setting up of a special chamber to deal with emergency motions tabled by lawmakers.

Pandikar said a special cabinet committee set up to address parliamentary reform will look into the necessity of forming few other committees as proposed by the legislative body.

"In his decree, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku (Abdul Halim Mua'dzam Shah) said the proposals brought by Dewan Rakyat have been accepted by the government with only one need to be scrutinised.

"As the speaker, I owe the executive a debt of gratitude," he said.

Pandikar again reminded news portals, Facebook and Twitter users to report news in full instead of providing a partial picture.

"I am so aggrieved to read stories where only one-fourth of the contents are reported. These are not facts," he said.

Pandikar also advised the media not to report on things which can be detrimental to the parliamentary system.