Parliament would expect a robust, engaged response, not simply a “we're thinking about it” response. If the administrative response is “we'll think about it”, that is not traditionally what has occurred. When Parliament sends a message, it would expect perhaps that there is some allowance for consideration of the overall case, but not really the issue of whether you might want to do it or not want to do it, or whether it might or might not be in the public interest, because Parliament would have already made that decision.
On May 17th, 2007. See this statement in context.