The prospects of agreement on a devolution package in the near future appear slim, however. |
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Either way, the effect has been that a crucial part of the machinery of devolution remains undevolved and largely unreformed. |
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The Nats are also seeking to turn devolution on its head, suggesting that it has allowed Westminster to give Scotland a worse deal than England. |
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A long-time supporter of devolution while an economic moderniser, he provides unsentimental analysis of heavy industry's demise. |
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The Union was based on the sovereignty of its seven constituent provinces, with the maximum devolution of power from the centre. |
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The muddle, fuddle, blunder and guddle that followed has only helped turn devolution into a source of national embarrassment. |
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With that in mind, Mr Prescott was putting flesh on the bones of devolution proposals for those in commerce, trade, manufacturing and business. |
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As both critics and proponents of devolution have pointed out, devolution is a process not an event. |
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This would help insure that any propagation of the human race worked toward evolution rather than devolution. |
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The party also opposes the establishment of a separate Tamil state and the various devolution packages. |
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Ministers talk the language of empowerment, devolution, collaboration, and support, but their actions speak louder than words. |
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Under these broad cultural practices, women became part of systems of inter-generational property devolution. |
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An annex to the declaration sets out terms for the further devolution of security and government. |
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In our judgement the power struggle within the TFG has ended with its devolution into factionalism. |
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The devolution of power under the new regional autonomy laws has had an impact on fisheries management. |
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The lack of an overarching threat meant devolution of power away from central authorities. |
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Now Scotland on Sunday can reveal that the hut that helped fan the flames of devolution has itself been consumed by fire. |
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He speaks about mutualism, localism, devolution and the decentralisation of power. |
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This is the devolution program and will have a very damaging effect on our treaty rights. |
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This produces the following devolution of title to the legal estate and the equitable interest. |
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The devolution of political power to Scotland, and to a lesser extent to Wales, has changed the political landscape. |
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Supporters of devolution have become inured to setbacks, diversions, embarrassments, disappointments and shocks. |
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But this month's emphatic rejection of limited devolution powers by the people of north-east England appears to have put that plan on hold. |
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The cutbacks would mark a halt to the massive expansion within the civil service and local authorities since devolution. |
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Through the decentralization and devolution of state power to ethnic groups it hopes to dilute ethnicity and fashion a cohesive society. |
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Health care, regional development and the devolution of powers to the territorial governments will figure prominently in all those meetings. |
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Also, at best, vestigial organs could only prove devolution, not evolution. |
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If a measure of devolution is good enough for the Scots, Welsh and Londoners, then it's good enough for us as well. |
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The party has fought two campaigns under the banner of devolution and has not reached its objective of forming the Scottish administration. |
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What he had to say will have real significance for the future of the devolution experiment. |
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In the run-up to devolution it was widely expected that one of the main challenges would be fiscal constraint. |
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A special survey of Welsh voters shows next week's devolution referendum in the principality is too close to call. |
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Residents will have the final say on the proposals as part of next year's devolution referendum. |
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The process of devolution and restructuring of local government in Ireland that generated the project has been under way for some years. |
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He was an independent at Highland council and was only inducted into the Labour party on the eve of devolution. |
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Under this pact the government made some concessions to Tamil demands, including the devolution of power to the provinces. |
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Do you mean, what about regional devolution like that which might occur under a federal European government? |
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Rather, it invites ridicule, contempt and cynicism towards the whole devolution project. |
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The malpractices, incompetence, cronyism and corruption he rightly castigates are not a product of devolution. |
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The two men had been at loggerheads over a long-running dispute about devolution. |
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Michel begins with this last work, considering the artist not in terms of his evolution but, in an important sense, his devolution. |
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He opposed devolution consistently, and with some asperity, precisely because of its potential to elide into independence. |
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Constitutional amendments have mandated devolution of powers to the third tier of government. |
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A written constitution would replace the present mass of verbose and indigestible devolution legislation. |
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Evolution of a smaller jaw would at best be a result of devolution, dysgenics caused by the accumulation of mutations. |
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The trilogy traces Neo's evolution from man to god and Morpheus' devolution from god to man. |
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We have heard quite specifically that there will be further devolution for those that have not got it. |
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So if there is a developmental sequence for species, then anything that reverses that sequence is devolution and degeneration. |
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Postponing plans for a referendum on regional devolution has condemned Cumbria councils to a period of potentially damaging uncertainty. |
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Laws which allowed schools to opt out of local authority control but still receive state funding were scrapped after devolution by the Executive. |
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It started well, but devolution quickly became an end in itself rather than a start of a process of democratisation and self-government. |
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It is a bit rich setting himself up as the saviour of devolution when he has done so much to create widespread public dissatisfaction. |
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The new Commons will be smaller than the old 659-seat House, which has been shorn of 13 Scottish constituencies because of devolution. |
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For decades, bitter arguments about devolution have bubbled away under the surface of a party fiercely proud of its unionist credentials. |
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Leading the way in Scotland would have been using the powers of devolution to benefit the nation. |
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At the same time, the media dodos who are still in self-denial over devolution continue to twitter, irrespective of the evidence. |
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A telling sign of heightened stress within the patrilineal family is the rise of litigation over property devolution. |
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George's claim that devolution would knock independence stone dead has gained credence over recent months. |
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Liberal Democrats in government in Scotland have set the new agenda for devolution. |
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The argument conveniently ignores the political reality of devolution, ie that we are Europeans through contribution, not derivation. |
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This shows that devolution and decentralisation is the way of the future and I look forward to further initiatives under the Better Local Government programme. |
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The devolution of authority to local officials has brought some benefits, to be sure, but it has also exacerbated the fractiousness of the country's already chaotic politics. |
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If he had, he would have known with an awful clarity that devolution of power to a local level does nothing at all to reduce coercion or gross unfairness. |
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A former leader of Aberdeen City Council, Sewel was offered a seat in the Lords in 1995 specifically to pilot the devolution bill through Parliament. |
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Despite the protests and violence, the issue that really has everyone worried is a planned devolution of power by the central government to the regions. |
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That has, to some extent proved successful, and the febrile atmosphere of the early years of devolution, with its perennial sniping and briefing, has disappeared. |
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One of the main impulses for devolution in the 1980s and 1990s was the need to defend the social democratic settlement in Scotland and Wales from the neo-liberal attack. |
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It may cost a packet, but devolution should provide far greater powers of scrutiny to give ministers and civil service chiefs the chance to enact change more quickly. |
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Both are now looking for a Plan B and I suspect that the next crucial battleground will be local government reform and devolution to smaller and more powerful councils. |
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After five years of devolution surely the acid test is to ask in what ways is life in Scotland different now from what it would have been had we not had our own parliament? |
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In other words, independence ceases to be a big bang and becomes devolution with knobs on, an incremental process by which the existing Scottish parliament extends its powers. |
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Kristol et al may long for such a devolution, but polls suggest that the majority of Americans do not. |
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One member of the commission, former Labour MP Ted Rowlands, said in an annex to the report that he does not yet believe Wales is ready for a new model of devolution. |
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Why, the logic goes, would we want independence when devolution is so bad? |
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Even after devolution, local government had little autonomy. |
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He dealt with an awkward question on devolution with the surety and intelligence you would expect from a man who refused to be bullied into Vietnam. |
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With Scottish elections due next year and the devolved parliament already under fire for costs overrunning on its new building, that would be a severe blow to devolution. |
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The west Midlands campaign, limited so far to the Birmingham elite and chattering classes, has been partly fuelled by a sense that north Wales is doing well out of devolution. |
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Even those who remain sceptical of devolution must grant that, now the thing is established, the division of responsibilities makes sense, at least in some areas. |
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In Wales, as well as Scotland, democratic socialism survives and, thanks to devolution, there is nothing that the thought police in 10 Downing Street can do about it. |
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Because they do not want to acknowledge the squalor and the cronyism inherent in the devolution settlement, on which all their well-paid sinecures depend, is the answer. |
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Even the proprietors and editors who did not want devolution to succeed can no longer claim the parliament is doing nothing or making no difference. |
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The secretary of the Southwark diocese explains that centralisation of stipendiary obligations has taken place in conjunction with devolution of more day-to-day duties. |
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First, there are rules governing the devolution of property by will. |
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In most instances widespread corruption, relatively centralised health policy making, and poor devolution to local governments lie at the core of the problem. |
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Quebec's perennial threat of separation from Canada has only been forestalled by massive devolution of governing powers from Ottawa to Quebec City. |
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Perhaps it's a natural devolution of the animal rights movement. |
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Because of this devolution, the French Community Commission can enact decrees, which are legislative acts. |
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A policy of devolution had been advocated by the three main UK parties with varying enthusiasm during recent history. |
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The Welsh Department for the Board of Education followed in 1907, which gave Wales its first significant educational devolution. |
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The government of Nunavut is currently negotiating with the government of Canada on a devolution agreement. |
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In September 1998, a Devolution Protocol Accord to guide devolution negotiations was signed. |
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The devolution of the executive power was not granted until 1997 when the first head government was elected by popular vote. |
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There also are groups calling for devolution or full independence for Occitania, Alsace, and Brittany. |
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A subdivision of a state is either a devolution of that state or not depending on its status under that state's constitution. |
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One possible solution to the West Lothian question would be devolution to the English regions but attempts have been unsuccessful so far. |
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They have had a mixed history on support for Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish devolution. |
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The nationalist parties, in turn, demanded devolution to their respective constituent countries in return for their supporting the government. |
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Dalyell was a vocal opponent of Scottish devolution in the 1979 and 1997 plebiscites. |
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A devolved Scottish Parliament was created in 1999 after a clear majority voted in favour of devolution in the second referendum. |
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Following devolution in 1999, the newly devolved governments in Scotland and Wales brought in their own acts on tuition fees. |
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Polling data for English devolution, English votes for English laws and independence may be found in the table below. |
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The Supreme Court is also the highest court of appeal for devolution matters, a role previously held by the Privy Council. |
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Its jurisdiction over devolution matters had previously been exercised by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. |
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Its jurisdiction over devolution matters had previously been held by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. |
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Precedents set in devolution cases, but not in other matters, are binding on all other courts, which included the House of Lords. |
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Under the Welsh devolution settlement, specific policy areas are transferred to the Welsh Government rather than reserved to Westminster. |
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As President, Ershad pursued administrative reforms, including a devolution scheme which divided the country into 64 districts and 5 divisions. |
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Some policies apply to England alone due to devolution, while others are not devolved and therefore apply to other nations of the United Kingdom. |
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Its purpose was to devise a scheme for the formation of a devolution settlement for Scotland. |
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A Commission on Devolution in Wales was set up in October 2011 to consider further devolution of powers from London. |
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In theory, reserved matters could be devolved at a later date, but excepted matters were not supposed to be considered for further devolution. |
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Publishing its blueprint for devolution in 1995, the Convention provided much of the basis for the structure of the Parliament. |
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Compared with other parliamentary systems, and arrangements for devolution in other countries of the UK, this was unusual. |
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The number of departments was initially limited to 10 but this increased to 11 upon the devolution of justice. |
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Although the Labour Party and the Scottish National Party both officially supported devolution, support was split in both parties. |
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Labour was divided between those who favoured devolution and those who wanted to maintain a full central Westminster government. |
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This reviewed devolution and considered all constitutional options apart from independence. |
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No further constitutional reform was proposed until Labour returned to power in 1997, when a second Scottish devolution referendum was held. |
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Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski said in 2009 that the asymmetric devolution in place in the UK has created a democratic deficit for England. |
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She has seen major constitutional changes, such as devolution in the United Kingdom, Canadian patriation, and the decolonisation of Africa. |
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Prior to devolution, Bute House was the official residence of the Secretary of State for Scotland. |
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Prior to the coming into force of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, the Privy Council was the court of last resort for devolution issues. |
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Spain and Italy have system of devolution where regions have autonomy, but the national government retains the right to revoke it. |
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The process was known as devolution and was set up to return devolved legislative powers to Northern Ireland. |
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The defeat of the first Welsh devolution referendum in 1979 had been a grave disappointment to Welsh nationalists. |
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At various times both the Labour Party and the Liberal Party took up the cause of Welsh home rule, or devolution. |
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In the years leading up to the first World War, Scotland found herself on the verge of devolution. |
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In this position Smith piloted the highly controversial devolution proposals for Scotland and Wales through the House of Commons. |
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The Scottish Trades Union Congress called for the full devolution of income tax, many welfare benefits and a different immigration policy. |
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The Scottish Government previously called for the devolution of APD in 2011, when it was devolved to Northern Ireland. |
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Polling in November 2014 indicated that a majority of Scots wanted greater devolution than that recommended by the Smith Commission. |
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In 1995, ownership transferred from the CAA to the Secretary of State for Scotland, and to the Scottish Ministers upon devolution. |
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The creation of administration devolution effectively defined the territorial governance of modern Wales. |
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The election of a Labour Government in 1997 brought devolution back to the political agenda. |
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Following devolution, the role of the Secretary of State for Wales greatly reduced. |
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The Conservative Party was the only major political party in Wales to oppose devolution. |
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Of perhaps greater significance, however, was the impetus the episode gave to Welsh devolution. |
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The Labour Party committed itself to devolution after coming to power in the February 1974 General Election. |
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New plans were brought forward by Harold Wilson's government in 1975 and 1976 which confined devolution to Scotland and Wales. |
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This was the second referendum held in Wales over the question of devolution, the first was held in 1979 and was defeated by a large majority. |
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The 1979 referendum had been such a resounding defeat that it killed off any prospects of devolution in Wales for a generation. |
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Under John Smith Labour committed itself to devolution for both Wales and Scotland, a commitment that survived his early death. |
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In contrast, and particularly following devolution The newspaper devotes a great deal of its coverage to Welsh rugby. |
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However, the Labour Party was bitterly divided on the subject of devolution. |
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Some policies apply to England alone due to devolution, while others are not devolved and therefore apply to Britain as a whole. |
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The twins Atreus and Thyestes with their descendants played the leading role in the tragedy of the devolution of power in Mycenae. |
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Instead of adopting a federal model, the UK has relied on gradual devolution to decentralise political power. |
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In modern times, a process of devolution in the United Kingdom has decentralised power once again. |
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This devolution may be suspended and replaced by direct rule by the Government of the United Kingdom. |
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The SNP are the all-or-nothing party and will never contemplate helping devolution succeed. |
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Democratic Unionist leader and Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson attacked the UUP decision to vote against the devolution plans. |
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He said that devolution of power to provinces under 18th Amendment is necessary to develop Gems and Gemmological sector. |
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But furious unionists warned the rush to demilitarise would delay devolution. |
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Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, is insisting that decentralism and devolution should occur regardless if Scotland vote for independence or not. |
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But for Morogoro resident Mzee Juma Matano, a 65-yearold father of eight, the ultimate remedy to poverty in Tanzania is the devolution of resources. |
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All of this speaks to a world torn by devolution and fractionalization. |
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A centralist mindset prevalent in politics, civil society, media and donors is the biggest threat to the federalism, provincial autonomy and devolution in the country. |
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I think we ought to be thinking about devolving power closer to the people rather than a more nationalist form of devolution to Cardiff Bay, which is actually centralist. |
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Mr Osborne delivers his Spending Review to the House of Commons on November 25, and could announce a devolution package for the West Midlands Combined Authority. |
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Other heads saw devolution as a whole new way of life and adopted an approach whereby the power of devolution was used to enable the school to drive the curriculum. |
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Section 40 additionally sets out that the new Court will assume the jurisdiction of the House of Lords and the jurisdiction in matters of devolution of the Privy Council. |
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The distribution of powers may be different for every community, as laid out in their Statutes of Autonomy, since devolution was intended to be asymmetrical. |
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The 18 years of Conservative government, under Margaret Thatcher and then John Major, saw strong resistance to any proposal for devolution for Scotland, and for Wales. |
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Plaid Cymru saw themselves as the natural beneficiary of devolution. |
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Victory in the February 1974 General Election pushed devolution onto the political agenda, culminating in the decisive vote against a Welsh Assembly in the 1979 referendum. |
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The introduction of the National Assembly for Wales and the Welsh Government, after the devolution referendum of 1997, was the beginning of a new era. |
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The Royal Commission recommended legislative and executive devolution to Scotland and Wales, with a minority supporting advisory Regional Councils for England. |
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English law still apply to Wales under the present devolution settlement. |
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The Act led to the establishment of the National Assembly for Wales in 1999, after the Welsh devolution referendum, 1997 which narrowly approved devolution. |
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Victory went to the newly elected MSP Ruth Davidson who suggested that she would oppose further devolution beyond the new powers proposed by the Calman Commission. |
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With the Labour Party's victory in 1997, referendums on devolution were organised in Scotland and Wales, both receiving agreement that devolved legislatures should be formed. |
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With a view towards Brexit, Sturgeon demanded greater powers for the Scottish Parliament, arguing that Brexit is threatening Scotland's devolution settlement. |
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The response of the unionist parties was to establish the Calman Commission to examine further devolution of powers, a position that had the support of the Prime Minister. |
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The scale of precedence in Scotland was amended by Royal Warrant on 30 June 1999 to take account of devolution and the establishment of the post of First Minister. |
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However, many hardline fundamentalists in the SNP objected to committing the party to devolution, as it was short of full political Scottish independence. |
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Scots law has continued to change and develop in the 20th century, with the most significant change coming under devolution and the reformation of the Scottish Parliament. |
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The SDLP party platform advocates Irish reunification, and the further devolution of powers while Northern Ireland remains part of the United Kingdom. |
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In 1997, following the election of a Labour government committed to devolution for Wales, a further referendum was narrowly won, establishing the National Assembly for Wales. |
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A Scottish Parliament was convened by the Scotland Act 1998, following a referendum in 1997, in which the Scottish electorate voted for devolution. |
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During the campaign each of the three main UK parties conducted reviews into devolution, with each recommending that more powers should be devolved to the Scottish Parliament. |
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The SNP group was reduced from 11 MPs to 2 in the 1979 general election, while devolution was opposed by the Conservative governments led by Thatcher and John Major. |
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Deals were made with the SNP and Plaid Cymru to hold referenda on devolution in exchange for their support, helping to prolong the government's life. |
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In the SNP, there was division between those who saw devolution as a stepping stone to independence and those who feared it might detract from that ultimate goal. |
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Since 8 May 2007, devolution has operated without interruption. |
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Under D'Hondt, the SDLP would have been entitled to the extra ministerial seat on the revised Executive created by the devolution of policing and justice. |
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Secretary of State, Peter Hain signed a restoration order on 25 March 2007 allowing for the restoration of devolution at midnight on the following day. |
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Shortly after this first parliament was abolished, attempts began to restore devolution on a new basis that would see power shared between Irish nationalists and unionists. |
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However, it is also possible for the Scottish Ministers to be given powers in relation to reserved matters, a process known as executive devolution. |
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Arguments for devolution to Yorkshire focus on the area as a cultural region or even a nation separate from England, whose inhabitants share common features. |
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Several Cornish Liberal Democrat MPs such as Andrew George, Dan Rogerson and former MP Matthew Taylor are strong supporters of Cornish devolution. |
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Within England, regional devolution has only extended to London where the Greater London Authority has greater powers than other local authority bodies. |
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In the first five years of devolution for Scotland and Wales, support in England for the establishment of an English parliament was low at between 16 and 19 per cent. |
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Although moves towards English regional devolution were called off, the Regions of England continue to be used in certain governmental administrative functions. |
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Following devolution of power to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in 1998, the government proposed similar decentralisation of power across England. |
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However, without formal links to any of the political parties it withered, devolution and the establishment of an assembly were put on the political back burner. |
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Wales Under the Welsh devolution settlement, specific policy areas are transferred to the National Assembly for Wales rather than reserved to Westminster. |
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The county's status continued to be a matter of debate in Parliament, especially as Welsh nationalism and devolution climbed the political agenda in the 20th century. |
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However, as devolution is more limited in Wales, in Welsh matters the Sovereign acts on the advice of the Prime Minister and Cabinet of the United Kingdom. |
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During devolution, a convention was created to manage the power of Westminster to legislate on matters within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament. |
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The party has mobilised English nationalist sentiment brought on by English concerns following the devolution within the UK and the rise of Welsh and Scottish nationalisms. |
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The Government of the Northwest Territories, the Aboriginal Summit and the Government of Canada have each appointed a Chief Negotiator to work on devolution. |
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Among the three territories, devolution is most advanced in Yukon. |
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It is a matter of dispute as to whether increased autonomy and devolution of executive and legislative powers has contributed to the increase in support for independence. |
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So at a time when people can talk about football and devolution and money, it is important that we also remember the values that we share in common. |
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Within the United Kingdom, a unitary sovereign state, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have gained a degree of autonomy through the process of devolution. |
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However, when the proposal was rejected by the northern England devolution referendums, 2004 in the North East, further referendums were cancelled. |
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