It used to be one of the few questions the PM personally had to answer, so it made sure that he had to be there and didn't send another member of the cabinet instead. Everyone appears to normally tables this question, and then their real question is asked as a supplementary follow-up, presumably so that there is less warning of what they're going to ask.
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Paula Mason
Posted on 11 Jun 2007 7:57 am (Report this annotation)
Please could you explain why time is taken asking this question every time, when the answer is always the same and tells us nothing anyway?
Matthew Somerville
Posted on 11 Jun 2007 11:17 am (Report this annotation)
It used to be one of the few questions the PM personally had to answer, so it made sure that he had to be there and didn't send another member of the cabinet instead. Everyone appears to normally tables this question, and then their real question is asked as a supplementary follow-up, presumably so that there is less warning of what they're going to ask.