Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Leader of the House – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 8 October 2007.
Harriet Harman
The Leader of the House of Commons , Member, Labour Party National Executive Committee, Party Chair, Labour Party, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
2:30,
8 October 2007
If the House is not sitting and Ministers need to give out information, they have no option but to give it out publicly and not to this House. When the House is sitting, we very much take the view that information should be given to Parliament first.