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<p>The Government believes that local areas are best placed to monitor the effects
of devolution policies within their locality. All devolution deals include a commitment
to putting in place a monitoring and evaluation plan, which is locally developed and
administered with government support and signed off by government.</p><p>Combined
authorities are also required to have local scrutiny committees, helping to ensure
that those best placed to monitor devolution activity are empowered to do so.</p><p>It
is the government’s view that this is an appropriate and proportionate approach to
decentralising power.</p>
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