Malvern Hills Bill [HL] Committee
10 March 2026
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Malvern Hills Bill [HL] Committee House of Lords
00:06 - 00:11
Speaker 1
Well, miss Lina, I think it's for you to pry as briefly as you can to the petition we heard before lunch.
00:13 - 00:51
Speaker 2
My lord, I'm grateful and I'll endeavor to do so. Clause eight, constitution of the board, I'm conscious you've heard a lot from us on that already. So if I can limit my response to just a couple of points. Firstly, the proposals have been put forward by the petitioner would not address key issues that are driving changes to governance in the bill. So they don't address the situation of the the board being able needing to be able to recruit for particular skills or experience and to have some control of the secured securing trustees with that skill or experience.
00:52 - 00:54
Speaker 1
Do you need six for that purpose?
00:56 - 01:32
Speaker 2
My lord, I'll come onto that in a moment that what the trust considers that the balance is right, but these are just the headline points that we would suggest that the proposals don't do. So the first is the skills and experience. The second is it doesn't address the disparity in the electoral areas to number of trustees. And thirdly, it doesn't protect against the issues that might come about from any further local government reorganization or boundary changes. And secondly, my lord, and this may be where it touches on the balance, as you'll recall from miss Satchel's evidence, the trust thought long and hard and has looked at a number of different options for how to reconstitute the board.
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