There is scope under the act for the Attorney General to assume conduct of a prosecution—there's still that power—or to issue a directive in respect of a particular prosecution. If Parliament established itself as being independent, it would be ironic if Parliament were to direct the DPP to conduct a prosecution and tell the DPP not to apply the test that's applied in every other prosecution in the country.
On May 17th, 2007. See this statement in context.