Sentences with phrase «of devolving»

If guests don't feel welcome, SkS won't find many guests coming to visit, and it will run the risk of devolving into an echo - chamber of groupthinkers nodding vigorously in agreement with one another while actual debate takes place elsewhere.

Standing Water is part of a devolving programme that aims to make connections between contemporary art, the past and the history of art.

Subsidiarity — the principle of devolving decisions to the lowest practical level — works.

While the intention of «savings for all» is a noble one, the system has come under fire as a potentially unfair method of funding distribution and seems to contradict the government's objective of devolving budgets and decisions to those at the «coal - face», namely the head teacher.

Hopefully the content will continue the cover's momentum instead of devolving into an expensive department store catalogue.

[76] She supported establishing a consensus on whether or not to have full tax devolution, but had «reservations» about the prospect of devolving further taxes to Holyrood.

Indeed one senior politician compared Rhodri Morgan (Carwyn's mentor in public sector studies) with Ramsay Macdonald and another loyalist Valley's MP told Carwyn directly that it was a pity that he didn't pay more attention to health and education in Wales instead of devolving police powers, with criminal justice to follow.

Gordon Brown, whose 11th - hour intervention in the referendum campaign was said to be a game changer and who orchestrated the famous eve - of - poll «vow» of increased devolution signed by the three main UK party leaders, remains a vehement opponent of devolving tax powers.

The show of unity comes despite continuing disagreement over how the process of devolving more powers to Scotland should be handled.

As if there was any doubt that Congress was on the verge of devolving into a carnival atmosphere, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic majority leader, on Thursday proposed doing cartwheels down the center aisle of the Senate chamber to draw attention to Republican efforts to block legislation.

Burnham is a strong supporter of devolving power from Westminster.

If the cost of collection and the complexity of administration militate against the fiscal logic of devolving certain taxes4 then it makes far better sense to wait until the scales tip in the opposite direction.

Labour came to power in 1997 on a platform of devolving power to Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the English regions and London.

It's quite the slippery slope of devolving, unregulated thought.

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will get their Barnett share of additional capital spending put at the disposal of their devolved administrations.

The Committee's budget is # 100,000 a year (as a comparison, none of the devolved assemblies have a similar set budget although Scotland's total artwork was valued at just over # 500,000).

For readers already immersed in the Westminster village who want to broaden their horizons, Lionel is very good on the intricacies of the devolved executives and legislatures in Edinburgh, Cardiff, Belfast and London.

But the rules of the devolved assembly mean that if the deputy first minister quits and Sinn Fein don't nominate a replacement then the Northern Ireland Secretary must call an election.

The signature policy of the devolved Scottish government's ruling party (the Scottish National Party) is that Scotland should be an independent state, separate from the United Kingdom.

It was not, however, instructed not «to deal with matters of finance in the context of the devolution settlements or with the representation of the devolved areas at Westminster».

The St Andrews Agreement in 2006 paved the way for a transitional assembly, as the precursor for the return of devolved government in Northern Ireland.

The replacement of the more moderate UUP and SDLP by the DUP and Sinn Fein as the largest parties polarised the situation further, making a resumption of devolved government considerably harder, as the DUP formally refused even to hold talks with Sinn Fein.

The price of the deal is an elected mayor, who from 2017, will oversee significant sums of devolved spending, answerable to a cabinet made up of the ten council leaders of the Greater Manchester authorities.

A system of devolved government is fighting for its life.

New Labour's introduction of devolved national assemblies in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland in the late 1990s signalled the starting - shot to a race for reform.

Local government formed one of the devolved powers and the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 was introduced by a coalition Scottish Executive formed between the Labour party and the Liberal democrats.

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has recognised the potential benefits of tax devolution to Scotland but cautioned that full account should be taken of welfare benefits interactions in setting rates and thresholds of a devolved income tax.

Nor do we look only at UK central government: we make careful comparisons of the devolved administrations of the UK with the traditional «Whitehall» departments and assess whether local government did better than central government (spoiler alert: it did not).

Amid delays that were based, in part, on political point - scoring, the system lasted only five years before the Welsh Assembly Government moved forward with a referendum to get rid of the LCO system and devolve further powers in one go — evidence, perhaps, that a system which requires the agreement of both devolved and central governments on policy changes might prove detrimental to effective governance.

Such a result would ignite international confidence in Kenya and many of the shortcomings of Odinga's history of unprincipled leadership and corruption would be overlooked as attention is placed instead on the implementation of a devolved system of government.

The lack of democratic legitimacy is intensified by the Chancellor insisting that to obtain the full range of devolved powers authorities have to adopt the directly - elected mayor model.

[10] In June 2008, Field joined calls for the establishment of a devolved parliament for England.

The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) in Scotland has renewed its call for the introduction of an annual Scottish Finance Bill to improve public and parliamentary scrutiny of the devolved taxes.

Last May, the CIOT recommended to Holyrood's Budget Process Review Group that the introduction of an annual Scottish Finance Bill could improve scrutiny of devolved tax legislation2.

A key test for Mr Crabb in this regard will be whether he supports the Silk Commission and Labour's view that our country should have the same, «reserved» model of devolved powers as those applied in Scotland.

However, what Westminster could not do within the Sewel Convention was then to put in place a «British Bill of Rights» (as the Conservatives at one stage planned to do)-- because this would vary the powers of the devolved country administrations and require their legislative consent.

In the wake of chancellor George Osborne's announcement this week of a ground - breaking set of devolved powers for Greater Manchester, LGC interviewed political leaders at half of the 10 councils that make up the city region's combined authority about the negotiations leading up to the deal and its implications for local government.

She told AMs they had a duty to represent the interests of the constituents and realise the democratic potential of the devolved assembly.

You've got a great storyline you're working on, something that sounds rather implausible, like the idea of devolved UK regions or the silly notion that a Tory / UKIP pact would ever be seriously mooted, but then you open up a blog (or a newspaper - remember those?)

The meeting came just two days before crunch talks at St Andrews in Scotland, involving all the key political players in Northern Ireland and aimed at furthering the restoration of devolved power at Stormont.

It surveys the fractured organisation of devolved government with many initiatives yet to find a consistent pattern.

In May 2017, the CIOT recommended the introduction of an annual Scottish Finance Bill as a means to improving the scrutiny of devolved tax legislation.

It would be funded by a Core settlement made up of devolved funds and the proceeds of tax generated from rapidly growing local businesses.

Even back during the 2014 Scottish independence referendum campaign, there were clear indications that Farage backed the creation of a devolved English parliament.

David Cameron makes a vow to deliver «English votes for English laws» as talks of devolved powers in the UK.

David Cameron says he made a vow to the people of England, Wales and Northern Ireland who told him the current system of devolved powers was unfair.

Cardiff and Edinburgh will demand more and more and all that Gordon Brown can do is waffle on about a shared British identity that only seems to find any resonance in the Unionist outpost of a devolved Northern Ireland where the Labour party is utterly irrelevant.

«A decent Government would recognise the role of the devolved Administrations and ensure that they are fully consulted.

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As the EU (Withdrawal) Bill progresses through Parliament, we wish to support MPs to ensure equality and human rights protections are maintained, including the implications of the devolved context.