Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at 3:39 pm on 26 March 2012.
The shelves of the libraries groan with unimplemented reports on the reform of party funding. We take the view that this should be done by consensus between the parties, if at all possible. That is the spirit in which we undertook these discussions previously—four or five years ago—and that is the spirit in which we shall approach the matter this time.