Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

I'll just go to rule on this question, without going through the Practice again in great detail. I take the points each are making, but I do think ministers have got, as the Practice points out, the ability to refer questions to other ministers if, in their opinion, the matter's more of a responsibility for other ministers. That principle is there. It doesn't mean the questions can't be asked, but I think on this occasion the point the Leader of the House is making has some validity to it because it wouldn't be something a minister responsible for aviation would make on their own; it would be something that would be enacted as a result of decisions of other ministries.

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