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The existing framework includes a duty to produce a local growth plan to hardwire local economic priorities into local and national decision-making, so strategic authorities can choose to set out how their local growth plan to make sure that it secures economic value and supports social value. There is plenty of scope there to undertake the kind of community wealth-building to the extent that a local area wishes to. Additionally, under Clause 21, the mayors of strategic authorities will be able to convene local partners to discuss relevant local matters, and local partners will also have a duty to respond to a mayor’s request. So, the element of community wealth-building that requires that convening power of saying what is the overall power of procurement of the public sector in the local area is perfectly possible under that duty.