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Local and Regional Government

Before the hon. Gentleman moves on, is he aware that Northamptonshire now has a grotesque structure called a sub-region? The Milton Keynes and South Midlands sub-region has published its own spatial strategy and encompasses counties that fall into the east midlands and the eastern and the south-eastern regions of England. It has taken from the counties' structure plans responsibility for planning thousands of new houses in the shire counties.