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Devolution - Coggle Diagram

- - - - In 2019 wales became the first government in the world to declare a climate emergency
      - First part of the UK to introduce a plastic bag charge in 2011
- - - - Enables scottish parliament to legislate on areas that directly affect scotland. For example, in 2016 NHS scotland identified that sales of alcohol per adult were 17% higher in Scotland than the rest of the UK. This led to them being able to introduce an alcohol tax of 50p per unit to discourage excessive drinking.
      - Scotland has taken its own approach to a number of policy areas:
        
        Scotland was the first area in the UK to ban smoking in public places in 2006
        
        The voting age has been reduced to 16 for local referendums and elections to scottish parliament
        
        Since 2011 medical prescriptions have been free
    - - Union is being threatened: the SNP won 64 of the 129 seats in 2021. Demands for independence remain strong as scotland has tried to call a second referendum and scotland is pro - european
- - - - Turnout 60.1%
      - Yes 74%
      - No 26%
    - - Yes 50.3%
      - No 49.7%