The phrase "answerable to the local" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone or something is accountable to local authorities or communities.
Example: "The organization is answerable to the local government regarding its environmental impact."
Alternatives: "accountable to the local" or "responsible to the local".
The heads of clinics are responsible for the quality of primary medical care, managing clinic staff and are answerable to the local district health offices and directors for issues pertaining to how the clinics are being run under their care.
The capacity of the TAC health services to successfully meet supply side dimensions of the Levesque framework have evolved over many years and are ensured by organisational governance, management, staffing and service delivery processes which are answerable to the local Aboriginal community and to funding bodies.
"Local health boards [will be] answerable to the people who use the local NHS: two-thirds of the members directly elected by local people and the final third indirectly elected representatives from local councils," he added.
Based on these measures, they closed some schools, put others on "special measures" and turned yet others into "academies" answerable to the Education Ministry rather than the local authorities.
They have used Friday prayers to tell looters to register their weapons with local offices answerable to the national council and have distributed reminders to be pinned to lampposts.
And yes, to have the chance to evolve the planned new unitary authority not just into a new vehicle of local government delivering nationally and regionally set decisions, but an assembly given the autonomy to meet local needs and answerable to the community that elects it.
Regulators would be answerable to the government under "management contracts", exposing them to political whims.
