Maurice Hayes (Independent)

This seems to be a beautifully academic discussion. I have no difficulty with the Attorney General making these decisions because it is not an executive role but a quasi-judicial one, though we need not go into that. If we have already agreed that these papers be closed for ten years and if one applies the principle of Occam's razor, there is no point in discussing what one would do with individual papers. The discussion should really fall on that basis.