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The strategy and action plan are very important, but I hope that we can move towards even firmer duties and statements of intent, such as a duty on local authorities to take account of play when granting planning consent or building roads.
They make the outlays but have to wait for lengthy periods before they get paid, while the money sits in the principal contractors’ bank accounts. That is why I was pleased to make my announcement about project bank accounts.
If I am unfair to fishermen in Scotland, I will have Scottish MPs on my back, and the same is true for Northern Ireland and England. That is how accountability should work. I am accountable to all those people and they are, in turn, accountable to their electorates and the fis...