Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

and I'm ready to rule on the point of order. As I've repeatedly said as Speaker, I can't vouch for the accuracy of questions or indeed answers and I certainly don't want to start receiving evidence during question time. I'm just pointing out that's the nature of question time. It's not my role to vouch for the accuracy or not. I simply make the point: when a question is framed, even in a tight way like that, so that it has at its heart an accusation, the questioner well knows, particularly an experienced one, that it might be seeking a yes-or-no answer. But that cannot be compelled, and the minister answering the question merely needs to be relevant to it. I'm listening to him.

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