if any, was taken to investigate what appears to have been disgraceful and illegal conduct close to the heart of government? well, i have to look very closely what the honorable gentleman says but the point i ve made and i ve never seen any evidence to go against it is that in the period that andy coulson worked at number 10 downing street as head of communications that there was no complaint about the way he did his job. now, i fully accept i take responsibility for employing him. i take responsibility for that decision. and i ve laid out very clearly today what i think of that now and all that has been learned and you have to learn these lessons if you re going to go on and get things right for the future. i would say in my defense is the time he spent in do you think street, he did not behave in a way that anyone felt was inappropriate. and that is important because the decision was to employ him. the decision was then his to lead. and during that period people cannot