County Hall, Essex
David Finch, the leader of Essex County Council, answered your questions in a live online Q&A.
Readers were able to put their questions to Mr Finch who heads up the authority with a spending budget of almost £1.8billion this year.
Although our live chat has now closed, we hope to run something again in the future.
Thank you to all those who took part.
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