EU Financial Management

I am not going to comment on individual cases. There are different sides to stories about personnel and human resources in any organisation. The hon. Gentleman is right to make the general point that we should welcome the fact that people working in the organisation are willing to expose legitimate material that is being withheld from democratically elected politicians or the public for no good reason. We should only do so, however, if they do not contravene their employment responsibilities as employees of that organisation. There is a fine tradition of people working in organisations who are willing to expose unsavoury practices that the organisation would prefer to leave unexposed.