Andrea Leadsom
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(7 years, 1 month ago)
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Mr Deputy Speaker (Mr Lindsay Hoyle)
Would the Leader of the House like to respond?
The Leader of the House of Commons (Andrea Leadsom)
I can only say again that I have absolute assurance that the statement was published at 10.30 am.
Chris Bryant (Rhondda) (Lab)
Further to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am not alleging anything about the Leader of the House, but the truth of the matter is that the statement was not available on the parliamentary website, nor in the Vote Office, until 11.30 am. The only reason why this matters is that none of us would want the Leader of the House to be ill-advised by others and to be living in a state of ignorance about what is actually going on. Of course, the written ministerial statement was about the timeliness of responses, so it would seem appropriate to get it right.