Australians would "not look too kindly on a government that sat on information or didn't deal with concerns because it wanted someone's vote", she said.
We do not wish to have another month of having wild allegations thrown about before being brought before the court while the respondents sit on information".
But even if the company had no legal obligation, he said, "Candidly, I just think it's bad business and not in the interest of public health to sit on information about risks".
This is, I think, a badly mistaken portrait on many levels.First, there is the premise that it is extraordinarily rare for journalists to "sit on" information because they believe that the value of disclosure is trumped by some even weightier social good.
Nicholls also wrote on Thursday: "As a trainer, it is all too easy to sit on information when it comes to your horses.
Two children did not sit, and information was missing in three children.
Mark Reckless MP asked Mr Graham, who has powers to investigate criminal breaches of the data protection act, whether he was happy that Soca "sat on this information for seven years and did not pass it to you?" Mr Graham replied: "The decisions that were taken in the past, those that were responsible for them are accountable".
Her information sat dormant until fate intervened several years later, through yet another series of coincidences.
While her brother and mother sat waiting for information which no one would give them, caseworkers and an interpreter went to assist at the station.
"Couldn't they have just sat on the information they had, put the Panorama edition on another time, when it wouldn't have affected the bid?" Well, not really.
