Mr Hague was asked about the idea by the Foreign Affairs Select Committee while he was answering questions about his department's response to the recent uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa as well as the earthquakes in Japan and New Zealand.
The assembled also included relatives of other officers lost in the line of duty: the father and sister of Alain Schaberger, who was shoved to his death whileanswering a domestic violence call in 2011, and the mother of Russel Timoshenko, who was shot during a 2007 traffic stop.
Then, while they are answering each question from the reporter, I ask them to put a check mark next to their message point each time they mention one during an answer.