Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

The minister is relating his response to the question and, if you want the added word, ‘directly’. It may not form what one might consider a direct answer, but it is directly relevant. I think you will appreciate that there are two different things. You may couch your question and you can expect a direct answer. The standing order talks of being ‘directly relevant’. Since the interjections have quietened and I have had the ability to listen carefully, I would adjudge that the minister has been directly relevant. He has not entered into debate about this question and brought in any other opinions.

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