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That should give comfort that services that were not in the old franchise will be in the new one.We have said that the minimal starting place for the new rail franchise will be the existing franchise.
However, it has been suggested that there could be a circuit of such courts. That would allow people to visit a number of places regularly and to build up knowledge of, and a relationship with, an area.
My concern is that revenue that is generated locally might be creamed off to support existing services rather than to promote new services. The aim is to enable people from America, Canada or wherever to visit local areas and benefit from a more joined-up service.
Our role is to influence the agenda. Without member ownership or buy-in by the locally elected members who sit on the LGA boards, it is difficult to get European issues on to the agenda.
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.
Equity has three yardsticks for testing whether the new Arts Council of England money is being put to proper use: larger casts, longer rehearsals and more new productions.