1.   A big wheel in local government.

2.   A major theme in local government is to control the power of the professional.

3.   A memo by the local government minister, Hilary Armstrong, admitted that Labour faced huge losses.

4.   According to the new law local parliaments would be empowered to conduct inspection and auditing of local governments.

5.   According to this approach, because local governments have their own political bases, they are always potential rivals to the centre.

6.   All agreed that new state and local government workers should be brought under the system, assuring new revenues.

7.   Although this included controlling overall levels of local government spending, the role of local government was not in question.

8.   An alternative strategy for the government in these circumstances was to place the burden of financing social provision upon local government.

9.   Another change in local government finance is that the rate support grant has been replaced by the revenue support grant.