David Burrowes is keen that the committee also hears from professional groups who might be affected by the bill: registrars, teachers and so on, and his side of the argument are planning a drive to make radical amendments to the Bill when it returns to the Commons for report stage, so they will be attempting to put down markers on the key issues.

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And heralding the City Deals scheme - in which more than 20 cities in England are steadily being given new powers over planning and transport - he suggested this could be a model of a more incremental but still radical approach to calls for a new political settlement in England.

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