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Written Question
Ministers: Disclosure of Information
Thursday 10th July 2014

Asked by: Pat Glass (Labour - North West Durham)

Question to the Leader of the House:

To ask the Leader of the House, what recent guidance he has given to his ministerial colleagues on making statements to the House before they are made to the media.

Answered by Lord Lansley

The Ministerial Code is clear; when Parliament is in session the most important announcements of Government policy should be made in the first instance to Parliament.

I regularly remind my colleagues of this.