Successes from work on the Devolution Bill – my letter to ministers on the remaining need for duties for new Mayors
My work on the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill won some success. The Government made changes based on my amendments during committee stage that added access to clean air and green spaces to the work new Mayors must do on health, and also helped save councils that use more collaborative committee systems of governance from having to change to top-down leader and cabinet models. I am very pleased to have won these changes and my letter thanks minister Miatta Fahnbulleh for listening to the evidence and to the campaigners
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