Who should take decisions about local issues?

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Who is in the best position to understand the needs of local communities and to provide the services that will help them? Should ministers in the UK government have this responsibility, or local authorities and local people?

Greg Clark MP is Minister for Decentralisation in the government and he explains in the video above why he thinks local people are best-placed to make decisions that affect their communities.

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