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It is key that all relevant agencies and advice organisations work together to ensure that we have the best knowledge of who is where and what people’s needs are, so that we can come up with the best solutions to problems and ensure that the benefits of migration are propagated.
Part of the life of leading a board is that you become accustomed to interactions with ministers on how the body's functions are best fulfilled. That is just part of life that you deal with.
If we are to have a sentencing council, surely we would look to sentencers as the people who are best equipped to play a part in the formation of guidelines.
Government can set minimum thresholds, and the industry can decide how best to deliver. It could do so partly by gigantism, but there could also be more local solutions.
We are advocating that there should be arbitration, but at the option of the person who claims financial loss, who could refer the matter to the Lands Tribunal. We think that that would be the best way to secure access to justice.