Devolution

Question 1

When was Scottish Parliament established?

Answer 1

1999

Question 2

How many elected members does Scottish Parliament have and what does it control?

Answer 2

129

Education, environment and transport

Excludes defence and international affairs

Question 3

What happened in the Scottish referendum in 2014?

Answer 3

Scottish Parliament given power to raise taxes

Question 4

What did Scottish governemnt announce in 2017?

Answer 4

Announced new income tax rates that are different to UK for first time

Question 5

When was Wales Assembly established?

How many elected members?

Answer 5

1999

60

Question 6

What is Welsh gov job?

Answer 6

Determines budget priorities, administers NHS and administers EU funds

Has no tax raising powers

Excludes international affairs and defence and raising new taxes

Question 7

When was Northern Irish assembly established

How many elected members?

What are there powers

Answer 7

1998

90 elected members

Like Wales

Question 8

What happened in a referendum in England in 2004?

Answer 8

Planes for elected regional assemblies dropped after voters in North East rejected idea

Question 9

What did Governemnt propose in 2014?

Answer 9

Northern Powerhouse to boost economic growth in North

Greater Manchester first to get extra powers over housing, transport, panning, policing and health spending

Question 10

What other 6 regions had devolution deals and he’d Metro Mayor elections in May 2017

Answer 10

Liverpool

Tees Valley

Peterborough

West Midlands

West Of England

Cambridgeshire

Question 11

What was second area marked out for devolution?

Answer 11

Sheffield City Reigon - consisting of 9 local authority areas

Would get extra powers over transport and planning

Would get 30m extra a year for 30 years

Question 12

What happened with Derbyshire County Council in court battle and what happened as a result of this?

Answer 12

Won! Said people of Chesterfield had not been properly consulted over SCR deal

Metro Mayor elections scheduled May 2017 postponed year later - Dan Jarvis Labour was elected but initially had no money and little power

Question 13

What happened when Sheffield deal stalled for devolution?

What happened in the end?

Answer 13

Movement to create a “one Yorkshire deal” incorporation South, East, North and West Yorkshire

March 2020 devolution ideas finally agreed with Sheff Reigon and sepreratley with West Yorkshire

Question 14

What is the argument for a Scottish MPs in Westminster voting?

Answer 14

Unfair that they are voting on issues that have no bearing on their won county, but impact English and Welsh Mps

Yet English and Welsh Mps have way over paticular issues to Scotland

Question 15

Who is Scottish Parliament controlled by?

Answer 15

Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP)

Question 16

What was results of Scottish Independent referendum in 2014

Answer 16

Yes = 44.7%

No = 55.3%

Question 17

What happened in run up to the vote?

Answer 17

All three party leaders (then Cameron, Miliband and Clegg) signed up for ‘The Vow’ to give Scotland more powers (including over income tax) and retain the Barnett Forumla (which gives Scotland 1.6k more per head to spend than England)

Question 18

What did the Conservatives announce plans for in 2015?

Answer 18

English Votes for a English Laws (EVEL)

Which would create grand Comitee if English Mps that would have a veto on only English laws

Question 19

Why is EVEL opposed by some MPs?

Answer 19

Opposed by Conservative Mps because they say it doesn’t go far enough

Labour day it will create two classes of MPs and will make it impossible for Labour to govern again in the future