Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Without detaining the House with a long explanation, certainly the practice around that standing order makes a number of distinctions, but, even so, the beginning of the question wasn't doing that. I have a different problem, and that is that it was a very specific question. I say to the minister that he has had about a 50-second preamble. He needs to either bring himself to the question or wind his answer up.

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