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Is a full council meeting required to sign-off the LAA?
In two-tier areas, do districts need to have signed it off too?
Is early sign-off possible?
What will happen in areas undergoing restructuring?
What are 'negotiating champions'?
What does the template in the operational guidance mean when it asks for 'lead partners' in relation to each of the 35 targets?
Is there a list of 'key dates' for LAA negotiations?
Is there a list of 'key dates' for MAA work?
What is the difference between the 'up to 35' and local targets?
Will local targets only have legal force (i.e. the duty to have regard) if they are linked to the National Indicator Set?
Will an LAA with many local targets be regarded as more ambitious than one with few or no local targets?
When, prior to June sign-off, do local targets have to be agreed?
Do targets need to be set for each of the three years of the LAA?
Where there are new indicators in the National Indicator Set, will Communities and Local Government be expecting all targets to be set by June or will there be some flexibility to establish the baseline and set the target at a later date?
What will happen if there are significantly fewer than 35 targets in the LAA?
To what extent can targets be changed within the 3 year period of the LAA?
What about targets agreed through LAA negotiations which conflict with what LSPs have in local strategies which have been signed off by the end of March e.g. community safety plans?
Where an area already has a target for 2010/2011 that has been agreed with Government in a local plan, will this be the LAA target? Or will partners be expected to stretch beyond this already agreed target because LAA targets are supposed to be challenging and ambitious?
I am considering including a Place Survey indicator in my LAA, but the data is only available every 2 years. How will this work?
What about non-survey years?
What are the statistical issues regarding target setting for the Place Survey indicators?
Can we set a target that has more than one spatial aspect to it? i.e. can we set a Target around NI112 to reduce under 18 conception rates in district X and Y and Z only?
Can a sub regional target be included in an LAA?
Is it possible to set a target which is expressed in relation to another target (e.g. RSS)?

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