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For the most part, those are new powers for agencies to consider in the light of local strategies, local circumstances and the available alternatives, rather than new duties imposed on the agencies.
The cash-terms increase that you have outlined is about 3.7 per cent; the latest estimated increase in average earnings for the year to which that refers is 4.7 per cent.
Over the past five years we have spent £50 million on new teaching buildings in my university, which has been made possible through careful husbanding of resources, selling assets and ploughing the money back in.
It seems to me that, if I am promoting a project and want to build a railway line or a bridge or whatever, it remains open to me at any time to go to any landowner and say, "I want to buy this," or, "I want to buy that."