Clause 41
Greater London Authority Bill
10:15 am
Yvette Cooper (Minister of State (Housing and Planning), Department for Communities and Local Government; Pontefract and Castleford, Labour)
I join hon. Members in thanking you for chairing the Committee, Mr. O’Hara, and for tolerating our occasional footballing fantasies and escapades at the margins of the Bill. It has been a great pleasure to serve on your Committee.
Clause 41 concerns the Museum of London, which is exactly that—a museum of our capital city—so we think it right to devolve the Government’s role in its governance and support to the directly elected Mayor of the capital. The clause will amend the Museum of London Act 1965 to enable the power to appoint governors to be cast from the Prime Minister to the Mayor, as we think is right. It will also ensure that those appointed by the Prime Minister can serve the remainder of their term.