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Devolution and regional administration: A federal UK in embryo?
18/11/2009
Author : Federal Trust for Education & Research (United Kingdom)
by Andrew Blick
 
Introduction by Brendan Donnelly, Director, Federal Trust for Education and Research:

This paper is the second to be produced as part of Federal Trust’s ‘Federal UK’ programme. The first, ‘A Federal Scotland Within a Federal UK’ considered the position of Scotland within the Union and its implications for the prospects of the establishment of a federal UK. In this pamphlet, Andrew Blick describes the arrangements for devolved governance and regional administration that have been established in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, London and the English regions since Labour took office in 1997. He then discusses how far these developments can be seen as signifying progress towards a federal settlement for the UK as a whole. The third publication will consider proposals for the structure of a federal UK and what politically realistic steps could be taken towards achieving this outcome. In particular it will address the issue of how England, which is often seen as too large to form a single part of a federal UK, can be integrated into such an arrangement, given the apparent difficulty of establishing the English regions as autonomous political entities.

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