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“The [Parliamentary] Committee also said councils need reassurances that they will not be required to take on new responsibilities that are or will become unaffordable. The report lists principles by which decisions on new responsibilities should be based, such as giving local government genuine discretion over how services are provided.
The Committee also calls for:
a review into whether Local Enterprise Partnerships should play such a key role in deciding whether to raise the infrastructure premium, following concerns that some are not representative of all business
consideration of whether, by making the infrastructure premium available only to those areas with a directly-elected mayor, it is placing areas without such a post at a disadvantage, in conflict with the aims of the new scheme
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