Though the devolved Scottish parliament received a raft of new powers under a post-referendum settlement with London, the question of another vote on leaving the union has overshadowed the current campaign. Domestic issues such as taxation and health spending struggle to gain tracti...
But let us now turn and deliver judgement on those areas where devolved power makes the Scottish government as autonomous now as it would be were Scotland fully sovereign – where the buck stops not with Boris Johnson, but the First Minster. We could pick out the CalMac ferries fiasco, and...
Which all ties in of course with what the Scottish government have been suggesting, that the Great Repeal Bill is about to be used to remove these previous areas of devolved competency that were part of the EU legislation and taken back to Westminster… In effect a power grab… But that qu...
It is unrecognised because, rather than laying out a federal structu-re in a written constitution, these arrangements were rather grafted ad hoc on-to the centralist unwritten constitution of the whole of the UK. The Scotland Act1998 that devolved certain powers to Scotland, a federalisation in...
It is also often, in practice, describing its decision not to use devolved powers to copy either of the fee regimes which have applied in England since 2007. (ii) Living cost grants Scotland has relatively low student maintenance grants (here called bursaries). Most living cost support is ...
Should the rest of the UK be entitled to vote in the Scottish independence referendum? Credit:Callum BlackCC BY-SA 2.0 Aspreviously discussed on Democratic Audit, the coming referendum on Scottish independence raises a number of important constitutional issues. However, it also raises some more fun...
as the devolved governments (currently Scotland and Wales) are able to set the income tax rates to be paid by taxpayers residing in those countries. Partial transfer of income tax powers in the context of THE EPS “It is in the interest of Scotland and Wales to ensure that income tax reve...
This was partly related to the constitutional division of powers between the UK and Scotland, with the former responsible for licensing exploration and the Scottish government having devolved control of planning, along with local authorities across Scotland. The government in Westminster has powers ...