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It also requires local authorities to balance their books in terms of licensing activities. In other words, across the whole range of activities, licence schemes are meant to be self-funding—local authorities might make more on one area and subsidise another.
One could take the view that that is just to avoid our getting too involved, but I think that in this case the Executive is genuinely considering the matter.
The local government improvement service has made a fast start in getting round chief executives to look for such opportunities, and it will be a key enabler in getting better joint working on this sort of issue.