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Devolution (Northern Ireland (Devolution made a difference. (The…
Devolution
Northern Ireland
The Belfast Agreement, 1998
It restored the provinces devolved powers. In place of the Parliament, an assembly was to be elected using proportional representation (PR) instead of first past the post.
The reason PR was introduced was to ensure that all sections of a divided society would gain representation. Meanwhile the Northern Ireland Executive was based on power sharing. This meant that all major parties were guaranteed ministerial places. This was part of a device to try to head off any possibility of future armed conflict.
Powers devolved to Northern Ireland include: Transport, Policing, Agriculture, Sponsorship of the arts, Healthcare, Education administration and the passage of laws not reserved to westminster.
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Devolution in Northern Ireland remains fragile, although nationalists in the government continue to campaign for more powers to be devolved. However, progress is likely to be slow as he Loyalist, unionist community is not enthusiastic about home rule.
Devolution in the UK is not a federal system. The UK government dissolved the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2002 due to the increase of tension between the two communities and the failure of ministers from the two communities to cooperate with each other. The suspension lasted until 2007.
1998, The Northern Ireland Act is passed granting devolution. First election to the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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Wales
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The majority was 50.5-49.5 and the turnout was only 50%, meaning that only 25% of the Welsh electorate voted in favour of Welsh devolution- this meant that a lot less powers were devolved to Wales than to Scotland
Government of Wales Act 1998 set up an elected Welsh National Assembly and a Welsh Executive to be drawn from the largest party in the assembly and headed by a first mi nister. The assembly had no powers to make or pass laws and the country was given no financial control-devolution to Wales in 1990 was purely administrative. A number of services are now ran by the Welsh Government but cannot pass laws related to those services but they can decide how to allocate funds it receives from Central government between various services
Government of wales Act 2014 - Nationalist settlement did not grow in wales after first stage of devolution. The Liberal Democrats due to the coalition government was losing power which was considered good as they supported decentralisation of power. The act included provisions such as: A referendum in Wales to decide whether the government should have partial control over income tax, The Welsh government was granted control over various taxes including business taxes and the government of Wales would have limited power to borrow money on open markets to enable it to invests i n major projects and housing
The main areas of government devolved to Wales included these: Health, Education, Local authority services, Public transport, agriculture
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England
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EVEL
English votes for English Laws: the idea that Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish MPs should not be allowed to vote on laws that will affect only England. The party holds 39.7% of the seats in the House of Commons.
The Scottish National Party are opposed to the EVEL movement and this is because before this was passed, the SNP were allowed to vote on issues only concerning England, however since this has been passed, they have not be able to vote on those issues, so they see the EVEL movement as taking away their political power.
Northern Ireland:
Devolution to N.Ireland means that their local MPs make governing decisions instead of our MPs in Parliament
Some powers still lie within UK government. some may be reversed back to N.Ireland, but others are 'excepted' so belong to the UK indefinitely.
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