The decision on former SNP MP Margaret Ferrier's potential suspension from the House of Commons was delayed because of a lack of MPs in the Commons.
The standards committee had recommendation that she be suspended for 30 days for breaching Covid rules was due to be voted on in the Commons on Thursday afternoon but there were not enough MPs present.
There were less than 35 members in the chamber at the time so the UK Government did not move the motion.
It will be delayed for more than a week as the House of Commons is in recess from Friday.
A Government source said it would be a free vote and would take place when the minimum number of MPs are present.
The Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP could face a by-election if MPs vote in favour of her suspension and 10 per cent of her constituents sign the recall petition.
Ferrier lost her appeal against the committee's ruling earlier this week. The verdict was damning, concluding: "She acted with blatant and deliberate dishonest intent. She acted with a high degree of recklessness to the public and to colleagues and staff at the House of Commons. She acted selfishly, putting her own interests above the public interest."
Ferrier lost the SNP whip and received a criminal conviction after travelling from London to Glasgow by train while infected with Covid at the height of the pandemic.
If it takes place, the recall petition will be open for six weeks. If 10 per cent or more of the constituents have signed it by the end of the period, Ferrier will be ejected from the seat and a by-election will be called. It would likely be months before the by-election takes place.
Ferrier would be allowed to stand in a by-election, but she would only do so as an independent candidate.
Labour, which recently selected teacher Michael Shanks to stand in Rutherglen and Hamilton West, believes it can take a seat they last won in 2017.
This would also be the first electoral test for Humza Yousaf since becoming SNP leader and First Minister in March. His party is yet to choose a candidate.
Having initially won the seat in the 2015 general election, Ferrier was beaten by Labour's Ged Killen in 2017. She took the seat back in 2019 with a 5,230 majority.
She was given 270 hours of community service in September 2022 after pleading guilty to breaking Covid travel rules.
She did a Covid on September 26, 2020 after showing Covid symptoms, including a cough.
While waiting for her results, she travelled in and around Glasgow as well as between Scotland and London.
The independent MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West also spoke in the Houses of Parliament and visited other locations in London.
She was suspended by the SNP in October 2020. Then First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called for her to resign at the time, but Ferrier refused to do so.
This would be the fourth time that an MP has faced a recall petition since the Recall of MPs Act was passed in 2015.
There was one unsuccessful one in Northern Ireland in 2018 and two successful ones in England and Wales in 2019.
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