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100			_aJones, George
245			_aCentral-local relations since the Layfield Report
260			_c2002
300			_ap.7-28.
362			_aAutumn
520			_aThe article reviews the developments in central-local relations since the Layfield Report in 1976. It starts from the Layfield analysis of the confusion about where responsibility lay for decisions on local government services, spending and taxing. It identifies a number of key changes - increased powers of intervention by central government, and its growing involvement in the internal working of local authorities - by both the Conservative government of 1979-97 and the present Labour government. It identifies a current tension between the government's expressed commitment to local democratic renewal and its increasing central control, concluding that the confusion identified by Layfield remains unresolved. - Reproduced.
650			_aLocal government
700			_aStewart, John
773			_aLocal Government Studies
909			_a54675
999			_c54675 _d54675