Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between James Morris and Nick Clegg

Tuesday 22nd June 2010 Commons Chamber

[James Morris (Halesowen and Rowley Regis) (Con)]

T2. Does the Deputy Prime Minister agree that as part of his broader constitutional package, there is an opportunity to codify and formalise the relationship between central and local government in order to promote and solidify the coalition Government’s localist agenda?

[The Deputy Prime Minister]

I strongly agree with my hon. Friend. The push for greater decentralisation, after years and years of grotesque centralisation under a Labour Government, is one of the most important changes that this coalition Government will usher in in the years ahead.