HC Deb 18 November 1997 vol 301 c126W
29. Mr. Truswell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what plans he has to give increased decision-making power to local authorities.[14870]

Mr. Raynsford

We believe that local decision making should be less constrained by Central Government and more accountable to local people. Our programme to modernise local government, therefore, includes in parallel with the renewal of local democracy, placing on councils a new duty to promote the economic, social, and environmental well-being of their area and ending crude and universal council tax capping.

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