Legal advice on Cross Default "privileged and confidential"

Eye wonders if the Noble Lord is beginning to rue his cocksure assertion that NatEx will loose all its franchises?

This written answer given on the 13th July (and just for Doubting Sim here's the source)

Stephen Hammond (Shadow Minister, Transport; Wimbledon, Conservative):
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport
(1) what legal advice he has received with regard to cross default provisions in rail franchise contracts;
(2) if he will publish any legal advice he has received with regard to cross default provisions in rail franchise contracts.

Chris Mole (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Transport; Ipswich, Labour):
Legal advice on the issue of cross default in the context of the franchise agreement is privileged and confidential; therefore, it will not be published or divulged.

This has all the makings of a Mottram Moment!