Within Wales, the local councils provide the main focus for democratic politics below the devolved government in Cardiff, and organise the provision of most local services. As part of our2017 Audit of UK Democracy,James Downelooks athow well they fulfil their roles. A statue in Blaenau Gwent c...
Local authorities play key roles in the devolved government of Northern Ireland, as expressions of communities that were in the past highly polarised on religious and political lines. They are also the only other source of elected legitimacy to the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive, and ...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT: English Regions Are Offered the Chance of Devolved Power ; Tories Say Prescott Is Destroying the Cherished Map of Britain by Replacing County Councils with New Mini-ParliamentsENGLAND IS to get up to eight new mini-parliaments with tax- raising powers under plans published by ...
Wales has its own devolved government and its own parliament (the Senedd), although some political decisions are still made by the UK Government, like matters of crime and policing, defence, and foreign affairs. People in Wales travel on British passports, like all citizens who live within the...
There was a public vote held in Wales in 1997 to determine whether we should have more control over our own laws and government policies. As a result of that vote, a National Assembly for Wales was created and certain powers started to be moved (“devolved”) from Westminster to Wales. ...
Image:The iconic site of Harland & Wolff's shipyard in Belfast How does this relate to the Northern Ireland assembly? The DUP is one of two parties that shares power in the devolved government in Northern Ireland. But the party has been staging a boycott and ...
However, within the UK, Wales has a degree of political autonomy. It has its own parliament, theSenedd Cymruor Welsh Parliament, which has the power to make legislation in a range of devolved areas such as health, education, and the environment. But the UK Parliament in Westminster retains ...
This is particularly the case in education, where Bavaria in Germany and New South Wales in Australia are also demonstrating leadership. Overall Index: ranks and scores 1 South Korea 2 Germany 3 Singapore 4 Japan 5 Canada 6 Estonia 7 France 8 UK 9 US 10 Australia 11 Italy 12 China 13 ...
stable. Majority will have the power to make decisions and never have to worry about being defeated in Parliament. Well the Minority does have to worry. The Minoritygovernmentmeans that the government doesn’t hold as many seats as the Majority government in the House of commons. Because of ...
A petition to the Senedd in Wales to restore Erasmus+ was rejected on the grounds that “it asks the Senedd to do something that it is not able to do”. It did however suggest signing an alternative petition as “the Welsh Government may be able to establish its own international exchange...