Member

My second concern is that while the Minister is, quite rightly, a prime exponent of the commitment that the Government should have to making more decisions in locally appropriate ways—her track record as a leader of a local authority was exemplary in that respect and I know that we are due to get the devolution Bill, which will take this devolution of responsibility and decision-making even closer to communities—this amendment would seem to take that the other way. It seems to imply that there are more circumstances in which national decisions will be made than local decisions.