DI-VOLUTION: An essential guide to winning in a digitally transformed post-pandemic environment

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So, our proposals take us beyond today’s binary debate that has focused too long only on which powers are held by whom without thinking of the benefits of co-operation to all. So we set a path for how Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, alongside the towns, cities and regions of England can be respected voices in Britain regardless of which party is in Government, and how shared objectives can be delivered by shared institutions. The Australian Capital Territory refused self-government in a 1978 referendum, but was given limited self-government by a House of Assembly from 1979, and a Legislative Assembly with wider powers in 1988. Local leaders should be able to take new powers from the centre, through a new, streamlined process to initiate local legislation in Parliament. Because, for too long, we have developed only some of the potential of some of the parts of our country, not of everyone, everywhere in the country. Talent is everywhere, but opportunities are not equally spread.

Devolution: what is it and what powers would cities get?". Channel 4 News. 14 May 2015 . Retrieved 2019-02-22. Those who build the present in the image of the past will miss out entirely on the challenges of the future. But recent economic and political failures have left our country ill-equipped for the huge challenges of a fast-changing world – the digital revolution, the medical revolution, and the green revolution – and for the response to climate change, supply chain shortages, global conflict, and automation. When we should be unleashing the potential for growth and opportunity in every part of our country, the continuing over-concentration of power in Westminster and Whitehall is undermining our ability to deliver growth and prosperity for the whole country.The political, social, and economic purposes of the UK as a Union of Nations, which the overwhelming majority of people in the country already accept, should be laid out in a new constitutional statute guiding how political power should be shared within it.

Fifthly, a new voice and new status, and new powers, for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as valued parts of the United Kingdom. Our recommendations will give the people of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland a new opportunity to benefit from not only a unique and mutually beneficial combination of self-government and shared government but from a new status we propose each of these nations can enjoy within the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, decisions of vital importance to communities – including the allocation of funds under Levelling Up – are made for increasingly naked party political reasons, further undermining trust.Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority have worked with partners and key stakeholders to launch a new employment-focused university. This university is due to open in Peterborough with 2,000 students in 2022 and the ambition of having 12,500 by 2030. There should be an explicit constitutional requirement to rebalance the UK’s economy so that prosperity and investment can be spread more equally between different parts of the UK than it is today, thereby equalising living standards across the country over time. Enhanced role for Members of the Senedd: the Welsh Senedd’s members should, if desired, enjoy the same privileges and protections as Members of Parliament in relation to statements made in their proceedings. Scottish Referendum David Cameron Devolution Revolution". The Guardian. 19 September 2014 . Retrieved 19 September 2014.

Towns and cities across England should be given new powers to drive growth and champion their areas. Enhanced status for MSPs: Members of the Scottish Parliament should enjoy the same privileges and protections as Members of Parliament In relation to statements made in their proceedings. And to achieve that Britain needs not only an irreversible shift in opportunities across the country – but an irreversible shift in prosperity. It requires a bigger vision than ’Levelling Up’ – because it is not enough to move a deprived area up from the bottom rung of the ladder to the second bottom rung. Our first set of recommendationsset out how we deliver our vision of a New Britain. Our aim is that each citizen as a member of our country can expect government Alternatively, via the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016, the Secretary of State may decide to establish a combined authority, if the councils in the relevant area consent. The Secretary of State must hold a public consultation, unless one has already been carried out locally and a ‘scheme’ has been published. The Secretary of State must be satisfied that the establishment of a combined authority is likely to “improve the exercise of statutory functions” in the area in question.Both systems also encourage a debate as to how much autonomy the sub-national governments should be granted. All devolved governmental power exists only with the agreement of the national government. It may cede more powers to the devolved government. Equally, it may reclaim them. Some believe devolution has also challenged the notion of parliamentary sovereignty. There are a range of different areas, such as education, transport and housing, which are now the responsibility of the devolved bodies. For example, during the Covid-19 pandemic it became clear that the many of the rules enacted by central government did not apply in Scotland. This divergence came about because health is one of those areas that is devolved to the Scottish Parliament. There is an agreement that the UK Parliament would not normally pass legislation in areas which are devolved without the consent of the devolved parliaments. This is known as the ‘Sewell convention’. Furthermore, although the Westminster Parliament still technically retains the power to abolish the devolved governments and legislatures should it vote to do so, many have observed that it is highly unlikely to use this power, meaning the devolved institutions are in practice permanent features of the UK constitution. Some have said that, on this basis, sovereignty is in fact now spread throughout the United Kingdom and no longer resides solely in the Westminster Parliament. However, the UK Parliament has increasingly in recent years passed laws that relate to devolved areas without the consent of the devolved legislatures. Some have suggested that the present central government is keen to assert the sovereignty of the UK Parliament and govern in a manner more typical of a unitary state.