Angus Brendan MacNeil
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Greg Clark
Through the Government’s programme over the past few years, we have devolved—and we will complete the devolution of—£12 billion of resources that were previously administered by Ministers and officials in Whitehall to Essex and other great counties. That is work in progress, but I agree with my hon. Friend that we can and should go further.
Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar) (SNP)
Can the Minister see the regions or cities of England one day having more devolution than Scotland currently has?
Greg Clark
The progress we have made in England has been significant. As the hon. Gentleman knows, we have also concluded a city deal with Glasgow. Some of the reflections I have heard from Scotland state that the Scottish Government have been a rather centralising Government and that they will look to the model of decentralisation that we have pursued in England to try to save them from that over-centralisation.