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<p>The <em>Government’s response to the Heseltine review</em> (Cm 8587, March 2013)
stated that the Government would support local authorities that wish to create a combined
authority or implement other forms of collaboration (for example, shared management),
and would also support local authorities that wished to have a directly-elected conurbation
mayor.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is open to discuss proposals from any areas on
the scope to further decentralise in England, where there is both strong governance
and the capacity and capability to deliver on driving economic growth. A directly-elected
mayor may be one element of such a case. There is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ solution.</p><p>
</p><p>The recent command paper, <em>Implications of devolution for England</em> (Cm
8969, December 2014) also sets the views of both Coalition parties on decentralisation
in England.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/implications-of-devolution-for-england"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/implications-of-devolution-for-england</a></p>
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