Devolution

Question 1

What is the name of the Scottish Parliament?

Answer 1

Holyrood

Question 2

Who was First Minister?

Answer 2

Nicola Sturgeon

Question 3

Who is First minister now?

Answer 3

Hamza Yousaf

Question 4

How many Scottish Tories were there under Maggie?

Answer 4

0

Question 5

What is Scotland in control of?

Answer 5

Agriculture, Education, Environment, Housing, Health, Courts, Local Government, Taxes, Welfare powers

Question 6

When were Scottish Powers extended?

Answer 6

2012 and 2014

Question 7

What does Scotland have that other bodies don’t have?

Answer 7

DEVOMAX

Question 8

What is the Northern Irish Assembly called?

Answer 8

Stormont

Question 9

Who are the Republicans?

Answer 9

Sinn Fein

Question 10

Who are the loyalists?

Answer 10

DUP

Question 11

When was the Omagh Bombing?

Answer 11

1998

Question 12

When was the Good Friday agreement?

Answer 12

1998

Question 13

What are transferred powers?

Answer 13

Powers controlled by the Northern Irish Assembly

Question 14

What are reserved powers?

Answer 14

Remain at Westminster but could be transferred if they wanted them - prisons and civil defence

Question 15

What are excepted powers?

Answer 15

Cannot be moved to Stormont without special laws being made - elections and national defence

Question 16

What powers do Northern Ireland have?

Answer 16

Agriculture, Education, Environment and planning, Health and social services, Local government, Justice, policing and prisons, Control over air passenger duty, Transport, Culture, language and sport

Question 17

What was New Labour’s aims?

Answer 17

Modernisation and decentralisation and democratisation.

Question 18

What is Welsh Parliament called?

Answer 18

Senedd Cymru

Question 19

What powers do Wales have?

Answer 19

Agriculture, Education, Environment and planning, Health and social services, Local government, housing, some control over tax, Transport, language.

Question 20

What devolution is there in England?

Answer 20

Metro mayors

Question 21

What is the definition of devolution?

Answer 21

Devolution is the delegation of power out of the central body to regional sectors of the establishment.

Question 22

What describes devolution in England?

Answer 22

Asymmetric

Question 23

What are councils in charge of?

Answer 23

Recycling and refuse collection.
Planning Rights - different councils have different rules.
Health - masks needed to be worn in St Albans earlier than national imposition - only a recommendation.
Youth groups.
Local transport.

Question 24

How many unitary councils are there?

Answer 24

57

Question 25

What are unitary councils?

Answer 25

Single tier bodies responsible for the full range of local services including education and social care as well as libraries, refuse collection and parks. Found in large towns and cities

Question 26

Example of Unitary council?

Answer 26

Portsmouth and Derby

Question 27

How many met boroughs are there?

Answer 27

36

Question 28

What is a met borough?

Answer 28

Single tier bodies that have broadly similar powers to the more recently formed unitary councils.

Question 29

How many county councils are there?

Answer 29

25

Question 30

House many district councils are there?

Answer 30

188

Question 31

How many London boroughs are there?

Answer 31

32

Question 32

What was the result of the 2004 North East referendum?

Answer 32

No to devolved body

Question 33

What is the West Lothian Question?

Answer 33

Scottish, Welsh and Irish MPs are voting on English laws but English MPs aren't voting on devolved matters.

Question 34

How has devolution impacted the constitution?

Answer 34

Changed the unitary framework to one that has been termed "quasi-federal" - implying that it combines elements of both a unitary state and a federal state.

Question 35

Where does sovereignty lie in the UK?

Answer 35

Westminster

Question 36

What has risen?

Answer 36

Nationalist Parties

Question 37

What voting system is used in Scotland?

Answer 37

AMS

Question 38

What voting system is used in Wales?

Answer 38

AMS

Question 39

What voting system is used in Ireland?

Answer 39

STV

Question 40

What is the impact of these voting systems?

Answer 40

More cross party cooperation - multiparty governance is now the norm not the exception in the regions.

Question 41

How has devolution impacted pressure groups?

Answer 41

More access to regional bodies

Question 42

Example of this?

Answer 42

Scottish Parliament passed a law banning corporal punishment against children. Consultation document sent out to 12 charities, seven equality organisations, 12 police, legal and human rights bodies and 20 medical profession. Most contributed views - Children 1st were particularly involved in lobbying - focus their energies on where policy is made so they increasingly lobby devolved bodies not just Westminster.

Question 43

What lead to Irish devolution?

Answer 43

The Troubles

Question 44

When was the Scottish Independence referendum?

Answer 44

2014

Question 45

What did the 2011 Referendum in Wales do?

Answer 45

Gave the Assembly power to create primary legislation, in areas like health and agriculture.

Question 46

What did the March 1973 referendum in Ireland do?

Answer 46

Referendum on whether Northern Ireland should remain part of the United Kingdom or join the Republic of Ireland (yes to remaining part of the UK).

Question 47

When was the referendum on the Good Friday Agreement?

Answer 47

2 May 1998

Question 48

What would an English parliament do?

Answer 48

Clear solution to the West Lothian Question

Question 49

What would an English Parliament allow?

Answer 49

Greater Representation - different voting systems

Question 50

What would having an English Parliament out of London do?

Answer 50

Reduce the prominence of London in politics and media

Question 51

What is the issue with England being so big?

Answer 51

Would be unbalanced

Question 52

How many members of the Irish Assembly are there?

Answer 52

90

Question 53

Which parties are the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister chosen from?

Answer 53

Largest and Second largest party

Question 54

How many ministers are there in the Irish Assembly?

Answer 54

12

Question 55

How many members of the Scottish Parliament are there?

Answer 55

129 - 73 constituency, 56 regional

Question 56

How many members of the Senedd are there?

Answer 56

60

Question 57

Example of corruption?

Answer 57

Alex Salmond - 2017

Question 58

How expensive was Holyrood?

Answer 58

£414 million to set up

Question 59

What was passed without legislative consent from any devolved powers?

Answer 59

EU Withdrawal Act 2018

Question 60

What did Scotland pass?

Answer 60

Legal Continuity Scotland Bill

Question 61

What did the Legal Continuity Scotland Bill do?

Answer 61

Secondary legislation needed consent from Scottish Ministers - challenged and sent to the SC - whether they had the power to enact this on UK parliament - devolution does not affect the power of parliament to make laws.

Question 62

What did 2020 Internal Markets not get?

Answer 62

Devolved consent

Question 63

What did the Internal Markets Act do?

Answer 63

Mutual recognition - meet one, acceptable every where. Non discrimination - milk cant travel 20 miles unlawfully discriminate.

Question 64

How did the Internal Markets Act undermine devolution?

Answer 64

Raise local standards but still have to accept goods from other areas.

Question 65

Examples of this?

Answer 65

Scotland and Wales ban sales of single use plastic - plastic cutlery in England - has to be sold in Scotland and Wales. Devolved bodies left with less flexibility than they enjoyed in the EU

Question 66

What do devolved governments play a smaller role in?

Answer 66

UK Shared Prosperity Fund