Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Yes. I'm just going to make the point, because it's important for everyone to understand: when a question is asked that refers to an earlier answer, it enables the question to go to something said in the earlier answer. What it doesn't enable the answer to do is to refer to things that weren't in the question. I hope I've expressed that as clearly as I can. I'm listening to the Prime Minister carefully. I also said that, whilst he is on the policy topic, he is able—and this has been the case with rulings of, I think, probably all speakers in the last 20 or 30 years—to compare and contrast briefly, but he doesn't have the licence of the earlier answer to repeat everything he's said.

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