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Community planning partnerships, led by local authorities, are best placed to take decisions at the local level on how best to deliver local public services.
Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. As you hinted, I landed the best job in the world 10 years ago: parliamentary officer to a Parliament that did not exist—for a few months, at any rate.
We thought long and hard about how best to approach things. We had to make assumptions, and I think that we were open about where assumptions were made.
We are taking a lead on that in the context of existing resources. We want to share best practice with planning authorities, and I expect that we will learn something from some of the best local authorities as well.However, we cannot magic planners out of the ether.