Justice Committee - Fifth Report
Devolution: A Decade on
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 12 May 2009.
Contents
Terms of Reference
Summary
1 Introduction
Our inquiry
Asymmetric devolution in the UK
Northern Ireland
The changing context
2 Devolution
and the Centre
The Cabinet Office
Creating the 'missing' centre?
The Secretaries of State
Wales
The Civil Service
The future of the home Civil Service
Secondments and shared learning
Civil Service capacity in Wales
3 Inter-governmental
Relations
The framework for inter-governmental relations
Fit for purpose?
Non-transparent
Joint Ministerial Committee
A new role for the Joint Ministerial Committee?
Inter-parliamentary relations
4 The Legislative
Process
Wales
Legislative Competence Orders (LCOs)
Scrutiny at Westminster
An over-complex process?
5 The English
Question
The West Lothian question
The broader question
Public opinion
Solutions
English votes for English laws
Devolution within England
Local Government and the English question
Conclusion
6 Finance
and the Barnett Formula
Review of the Barnett Formula
Conclusions and recommendations
Devolution and the Centre
The Civil Service
Inter-governmental Relations
Joint Ministerial Committee
Inter-parliamentary relations
The Legislative Process
Scotland
Wales
The English Question
Solutions
An English Parliament
English votes for English laws
Devolution within England, Local Government
and the English Question
The English Question—Conclusion
Finance and the Barnett Formula,/ul>
Annex A
Formal Minutes
Witnesses (page numbers refer to Vol II)
List of written evidence (page numbers refer
to Volume II)
Reports from the Justice (previously Constitutional
Affairs) Committee since Session 2006-07
Oral and Written Evidence - HC 529-II
13 November 2007
29 January 2008
19 February 2008
26 February 2008
13 March 2008
1 April 2008
22 April 2008
8 May 2008
13 May 2008
8 July 2008
Written Evidence
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