Built Environment: Design Quality

Lord Berkeley Excerpts

Monday 22nd November 2010 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Rawlings]

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin, for his question regarding the national planning policy framework. We will make an announcement about the framework and how best to take it forward as soon as it has been agreed. The implications for specific areas of planning policy, including design and related surroundings, will become clear during the process. Design for disabled people, especially with regard to the Olympics, is very much in the department’s thinking.

[Lord Berkeley]

My Lords, my noble friend Lady Whitaker asked the Minister a question about the Design Museum; I believe that her answer was about the Design Council. Could she answer my noble friend’s question?

[Baroness Rawlings]

I am afraid that I have no information on the Design Museum. I would not like to lead the noble Baroness on a different trail.