Member

I remind your Lordships—I carefully checked this morning—that there is no provision in planning appeal procedure or in any planning procedure for any secret or closed hearings to be held to deal with national security. It is just not provided for and it would be unlawful if done, even if we had an inspector with the relevant qualifications to deal with it. With respect to the very good planning inspectors, it seems to be something that they would far rather not do and would say that they are not qualified to do.