92 Government.  If it were going to be an optimal instrument for influencing the Government, it would become part of the Government.  The paradox is that it would then lose much of its value.    Lack of Expertise and Resources for Evaluation of Law Commission Reports 350.  There is a further factor in the relationship.  When the Ministry of Justice was created and the Department for Courts and the Department of Corrections hived off  it,  the  Law  Reform  Division  was  also  effectively  collapsed.    Thus  the capacity  of  the  Ministry  of  Justice  to  carry  out  law  reform  is  reduced  from former days and its depth of expertise has been reduced as well.  The political emphasis  on  law  and  order  issues  in  recent  times  has  been  constant  and insistent,  and  much  of  the  resources  in  the  Ministry  must  be  devoted  to legislation designed to implement the Government’s law and order policy.    351.  This   leaves   the   Ministry   with   scant   resources   for   some   of   its   other responsibilities and, in particular, it now lacks the expertise to evaluate some of the  recommendations  contained  in  Law  Commission  Reports.    The  question must be asked, why should the Ministry evaluate the advice of the Commission?   If Ministers are uncertain and ask for that advice, obviously such work must be done.  But it ought not be assumed that it is necessary unless Ministers ask for it.    352.  One question that arises is whether it is sensible for the Law Commission to go through  an  elaborate  set  of  procedures,  including  consultations,  to  produce  a Report  only  to  find  that  it  is  unacceptable  to  the  Government.    But  what  is worse  is  to  find  out  not  that  a  Report  is  unacceptable,  but  that  it  languishes within the Government unaddressed simply because there are no analysts that the  Government  has,  or  resources  that  it  has  available,  to  devote  to  deciding whether Ministers should take up the proposal or not.    353.  It is important to improve the relationships between the Law Commission and Government Departments.  The Law Commission has, in recent years, forged a positive  relationship  with  the  Ministry  of  Commerce,  now  the  Ministry  of Economic  Development.    The  Commission  has  contributed  high  quality  work on proposals to change the law in e-Commerce and insolvency.  Legislation in