Scott answers possible minister's question

I tried it once, it resulted in me having to write a PMQ on the whole thing.

Issue
Are ministerial requests annoying? Do they take up valuable time that could be better spent doing actual work?

Talking Points

• Ministerial requests occur for even the tiniest, most annoying of reasons. In some cases there appear to be no identifiable reasons at all for the ministerial request to exist.
  

• The irrelevance of ministerial requests places some question marks over the sanity of the minister and the various members of parliament.
  

[If asked about annoyance rating of ministerial requests]
Ministerial requests are clearly a waste of the department's time to follow up, are usually triggered when someone panics upon reading a poorly researched story in the press, and clearly indicate that I, the minister, am not of sound mind.