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Politics of Scotland. Devolution is the process in which the central British parliament grants administrative powers (excluding principally reserved matters) to the devolved Scottish Parliament.
The Scottish devolution referendum of 1997 was a pre- legislative referendum held in Scotland on 11 September 1997 over whether there was support for the creation of a Scottish Parliament with devolved powers, and whether the Parliament should have tax-varying powers.
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Sep 8, 2017 · 8 September 2017. Scottish devolution vote from the archive. By Andrew Kerr. BBC Scotland political correspondent. Next Monday marks the 20th anniversary of the 1997 devolution referendum,...
7 September 2017. By Andrew Kerr,BBC Scotland political correspondent. Scottish devolution vote from the archive. Next Monday marks the 20th anniversary of the 1997 devolution referendum,...
Nov 17, 2020 · 24 March 2021. Two of the UK's parliaments - Holyrood in Scotland and the Senedd in Wales - will be holding elections on Thursday 6 May. But what powers do national parliaments have, and how do...
The smoking ban represents just one major change brought by devolution. The ban, introduced by Scottish Labour as the Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005, made it an offence to smoke in public places in Scotland, though there was a small number of exceptions. A year on from its introduction, Jack McConnell, on the verge of ...
By placing Scottish devolution in context alongside developments in Northern Ireland and Wales, the chapter assesses some of the important aspects of devolution that have led to this new constitutional reality, such as the competencies of the Scottish Parliament and the Sewel Convention.
