It's an excellent and very important question that I take extraordinarily seriously as a deputy minister. Any MP who asks for any information needs to go through my minister's office. That's an absolute principle, and that's what's happened in these cases where we've been working on projects; that's the way the information flows. So the contact goes to the minister's office. We provide the information to the minister's office. I will say, when we attend announcements and so on with members of Parliament, we obviously talk to them at that point in time when we're at the events, but there is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a regular flow of information between MPs and public servants on a regular basis. It needs to go through, following some very clear principles, the minister's office.
On October 28th, 2010. See this statement in context.