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We probably can, in later groups, come back to how this is to be sequenced and whether the Secretary of State, who has the power to require strategic development strategies to be implemented, would simply hold back in Oxfordshire, for example, and say not to produce a strategic development strategy as a unitary authority or a single foundation authority in the way that the Bill offers because the Government are intending to have a larger strategic authority, which could be Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire, or Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. There are a number of unknowns about the overall scale of the strategic authority. Indeed, the implication of the Government’s intentions is that the strategic plan and the strategic development strategy should be aligned with strategic authorities. Anything else does not really make any sense.