Sentences with phrase «devolved nation»

UK employers with a cross-border workforce will need to manage the different administrative arrangements for funding for each devolved nation.

Some devolved nation MPs have referred to it as a «UK Government employment tax».

A national sustainable Strategy Board, including representatives from all the voluntary groups, health professional organisations, and NGOs to share best practice between devolved nations coordinated by a high level funded lead specialist.

Brexit is likely to have a huge impact in the devolved nations.

It is often very difficult to make a clear - cut decision on whether any measure is wholly English since many bills have a financial impact on the UK as a whole, often affecting Treasury grants for the devolved nations.

Not least when we know that the right wing coalition is planning to make the northern regions and the devolved nations pay the brunt of their plans to cut the deficit too early and unfairly.

The Prime Minister has said measures to address the issue of MPs with seats in the devolved nations being able to vote on policies that do not apply in their constituencies must go «in tandem» with the process of granting fresh powers to Holyrood.

«There is a feeling that England is at a disadvantage, and that it's not right that MPs representing the devolved nations should be able to vote on matters affecting England.

Alternatively he could either go back to Defence with a brief to sort out a realistic deployment of the forces or, even better, take up a new post as Secretary of State for the Nations and Local Government - combining responsibility for the three devolved nations and the present «Communities» department?

The backbencher spoke out as the leaders of Britain's three main political parties woke up to the uncomfortable fact that England had caught up with the devolved nations and now had four main parties.

The devolved nations must not and can not be sidelined by this out of touch Tory government.

The right to play is wholly undermined, it says, by: the government's withdrawal of a play policy for England; insufficient provision of spaces and facilities for play and leisure, particularly those accessible to children with disabilities or from disadvantaged communities; a lack of public spaces where teenagers can socialise; and the underfunding of play and leisure policies in the devolved nations.

Members in the devolved nations will want to know the implications for their own school budgets, too.

The taxation of UK property purchasers is becoming increasingly complex as the devolved nations levy their own taxes and set their own rates.

The appointments panel is expected to publish a new policy on implementing the new equal merit provision, he said, and it will also work with professional bodies and government legal departments in England and the devolved nations to promote vacancies.

That legislation, they say, was predicated on the application of EU law, thereby protecting the EU rights of citizens of the devolved nations.

Not exact matches

Look around, our nation is devolving into ruin.

Let the all - knowing and all - powerful government do it all so we can sit here and devolve from caring nation to one that expects its butt to be wiped.

A few clear - sighted politicans at Westminster probably realise that once all four of the UK nations (ie including England) exercise extensive devolved powers, the UK becomes a federation — and a necessary consequence of that is a massive transfer of powers from Westminster to the four national parliaments and governments, leaving the House of Commons (together with the successor to the House of Lords) and the Westminster government with only very limited functions — basically foreign affairs, defence, and co-ordination of all - UK matters that transcend the borders of the four nations.

But devolving resources and responsibilities from an overbearing, unresponsive, and ineffective federal government to the states is the first step we must make if we are serious about putting our nation back on track, and our people back to work,» he said.

As Scotland waits to see if Westminster can meet its deadline for producing draft legislation for extending more powers north of the border by January 25, English political leaders have become more aware than ever of the growing gap in devolved powers between England and the other home nations.

An annual report that monitors fuel poverty across the UK has today been published, highlighting the fact that the relentless increase in the scale of fuel poverty across all four nations of the UK continues despite the efforts of the Westminster Government and the devolved administrations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Scottish and Welsh nationalism have been increasing in popularity, and since the Scottish independence referendum, 2014 there has been a wider debate about the UK adopting a federal system with each of the four home nations having its own, equal devolved legislatures and law - making powers.

Nations other than England have devolved authorities: the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Northern Ireland Assembly.

He said Labour had «never sought to devolve income tax - varying powers and warned that such a move risks «undermining the union» by limiting the «ability to pool risk and share rewards between the peoples and regions and nations of Britain.»

The move takes advantage of recent EU regulations that allow individual nations and devolved territories to ban the growth of such crops even if pan-European clearance has been granted by European safety authorities.

Devolved UK governments have recently been actively promoting the children's right to play, in keeping with Article 31 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Children which have major implications for education in the UK.

The activity sheet includes teachers» notes, useful web links, and links (where appropriate) to the national curriculum in each of the four devolved UK nations; England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

During her confirmation process, DeVos promised time and again to shrink Uncle Sam's impact on the nation's schools — to devolve decisions back to states, communities, educators and parents.

Nadia and Saeed fall in love when their nation devolves into civil war, and so they must flee through magical doors from one country to the next.

It's also good to be aware that although the levy applies across the UK, apprenticeships are a devolved policy which means that authorities in each of the UK nations manage their own apprenticeship programmes including how funding is spent on apprenticeship training.

Panic takes over in the «nation's» capital, followed by improvisation, vague promises of more devolved powers, and not - so - subtle threats about what it will all mean for the shared currency and the breakaway state's place in the larger common market (their EU to our NAFTA).

We are proud of our UK - wide reach, and have offices and staff in all four nations, engaging with the devolved governments and advocating on behalf of adoptive families, wherever they live.