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Set communities free from Whitehall
Set communities free from Whitehall
We will free local councils from many of the stifling controls of central government so that they can innovate and deliver services that meet local people’s real needs. Councils will become genuinely accountable to their local communities rather than being agents of Whitehall. To cut bureaucracy and increase effectiveness we would go much further than Labour or the Tories to cut the burden of inspections, merging eight government inspectorates into one, a streamlined and independent Audit Commission.