Member

I am grateful to the Minister for the opportunity that I had to discuss this with him. I imagine he will say that there are already other quangos and bodies that will tell the commissioners what to think about these issues. That is a very odd concept. The commissioners have a duty; they are in charge of preserving this national resource. They have had that duty for centuries. The idea that they should rely on some quango or some response by a Select Committee to an annual report—and that the principle that they preserve for future generations what they have been entrusted to save and protect should not be absolutely central to everything that they do—just does not cut it for me.