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Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [HL]

Could the Minister think about how it will have to be different? The old county structure plan actually delivered things. Everything that we have had since then, I agree, will have to be rethought. Counties are quite big. They work out logistics with partners and they have LAAs. A modern version of a county structure might deliver more houses for the Government, a better economic strategy and some of the things that we want, that they want and that the public might like, rather than creating bureaucratic nightmares of unelected boards and unelected people trying to tell elected people what they think they want. Obviously, the noble Baroness wants to give a fuller reply. Why can we not go back a bit and examine what was better in the old days rather than what we have now?