Member

But I am straying from the point. The thrust of this amendment is to ensure that any public servant, whether Secretary of State, Minister or official in any department of state, is held to the same exacting standards we should expect of our councillors and mayors. This amendment goes beyond that of the noble Baroness, Lady Boycott, and encompasses those Ministers and officials, whether it is MHCLG for planning, Defra for land use, DCMS for culture and listed buildings—as my noble friend Lord Parkinson who is not in place so eloquently put earlier—and, of course, DESNZ for solar. It especially applies to the Treasury, where they seem to be making planning policy on the hoof. Such training would allow everybody to get the understanding that the development industry is a complex one, with many layers, regulations and risks that just does not magic new homes out of fresh air by diktat