§ Lord Lukeasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they have any plans to resurrect their proposals (contained in last Session's Culture and Recreation Bill (HL)) for regulating the trustees of the great national museums. [HL4226]
§ The Minister of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Baroness Blackstone)Our aim in the Bill was to streamline aspects of the public appointment process.
We are continuing to look at ways to improve the process of public appointments to museums and galleries and have already streamlined the existing administrative processes.
We will continue to look for legislative opportunities to achieve further improvements to the process in consultation with the chairmen of the national museums and galleries.