Natural Resources Wales

Part of 3. Topical Questions – in the Senedd at 2:50 pm on 28 November 2018.

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Photo of Mr Neil Hamilton Mr Neil Hamilton UKIP 2:50, 28 November 2018

I've had the advantage of questioning Clare Pillman, the current chief executive, on the Public Accounts Committee, and I have to say that she did impress me, and she's certainly a vast improvement on her predecessor. But I wonder whether there is an inherent tension between the regulatory role on one hand and the management of the environment role in NRW, and its commercial arm, given the disastrous consequences of their attempts to act in a commercial fashion in recent years. And, whilst I wouldn't necessarily go as far as Andrew R.T. Davies in calling for the whole organisation to be dismantled and put back together again as it was previously, perhaps, is there not an argument for separating out the commercial functions of NRW and having a separate board for that which is quasi-independent, at least, of the main board?