The author examines the changes to environmental policy, transport policy, or developments in health and local government. The legislation and the courts have granted extensions to the arbitrary power of the ministers in subsituting their view of public interest for one generated by those in the locality where the service is provided. The effective centralisation of control systems and ministerial fiat and the reduction of local representation and consultation, contradicts the rehetoric and contributes to confused picture of responsibility therefore reducing accountability in practice
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