If nothing else, there are three fundamental questions which the Minister failed to answer.
1) Were members of our Armed Forces lying with the original accusation?
2) If not, how on Earth did we end up with the situation where personnel are paying for food on operations?
3) What, if anything, has been done to ensure this won't happen again?
Mistakes happen - I had to do a bit of running around Akrotiri during Granby to get my ginger beers fed properly as they were fixing my jet at all hours. This situation looks like it had arisen from policy however, and I would imagine that's why the Minister is trying to dodge the question.