I fully agree with all the above.
I would also like to see the (unelected & unrepresentative) secretary of a department with any kind of aviation input actually be managed and directed by the relevant minister.
That certainly doesn't happen now.
Mind you it hasn't happened during the nearly half century that I have been in the aviation game so why should it start to happen now.
The senior public service mandarins have learnt their craft all too well from Humphrey Appleby.
From Hansard and the various video records of the current incumbents performance only reinforces my observation.
Tipsy
