BBC Democracy Live - Government 'sorry' for reservists statement 4 July 2013 Last updated at 12:11 Help The government owes the shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy, and other colleagues, an apology over the lack of information provided to the House before the reservists statement, Leader of the House Andrew Lansley told MPs on 4 July 2013. He went on to say: "I do give that apology. We will endeavour to ensure that it does not happen again. On 3 July 2013, the Defence Secretary Philip Hammond announced to the Commons that a total of 38 reservist centres are to close as part of the restructuring, while 13 will either open or re-open. Labour said no details had been given of the locations to close and Speaker John Bercow described the scenes in the Commons yesterday as a "frankly unedifying spectacle." Shadow leader of the house Angela Eagle said the "spectacular failure to provide members with crucial documents relating to statement on Army reserves" was "a new low." She called for the defence secretary to come back to the Commons and "subject himself to the scrutiny of members who will finally have adequate information in front of them."