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Changes in commercial fashion and practice have wiped out a large part of the CWS network, but it has been replaced by new shoots of co-operative growth in other areas.
The report of the CSG was one of the cornerstones on which the new Parliament was built. It reflected a high degree of public and political consensus about the way in which our new Parliament should operate.
However, it is not just nostalgia that makes me hope that local government remains at the heart of the new funding programmes, if not of the new management arrangements.