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

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But this is not in itself enough to clean up the centre. We need new rules to make politicians more accountable for their behaviour. We need new protections against unacceptable influences on our democratic process, and free our politics from the excessive influence of wealthy donors and in particular the use of foreign money. In February 2022, the Government published the Levelling Up White Paper. This set out a new devolution framework, extending devolution beyond metropolitan areas for the first time. The framework sets out a flexible, three level approach to devolution recognising that a one-size fits all model would not be suitable, with different powers and functions for each devolution level. Another concern has been the inconsistency of devolution. For instance, at the outset of devolution in 1999, the powers devolved to Scotland were significantly more extensive than those devolved to Wales. This gap has narrowed subsequently. The gap is most pronounced when considering the difference between the devolved systems in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and the position in England. Where devolution exists, it is less extensive in England, and parts of England have no devolution at all. Some voices within England have called for an extension of powers: Greater Manchester’s mayor, Andy Burnham, for example, has called for more powers, including the ability to bring under his control Greater Manchester’s transport system. To secure the benefits of co-operation between Scottish, Welsh and UK institutions, because we can achieve more within our islands working in partnership than ever we can achieve working on our own;

As in the Northwest Territories, federal responsibilities were transferred to the Yukon government in the 1980s. In 1988 the Minister and the Yukon Government Leader signed a Memorandum of Understanding committing the parties to smooth the progress of devolution of remaining province-like responsibilities to the Yukon Government. Responsibilities transferred since then include fisheries, mine safety, intra-territorial roads, hospitals and community-health care, oil-and-gas and, most recently, natural resources. Local leaders should be able to take new powers from the centre, through a new, streamlined process to initiate local legislation in Parliament. Enhanced local control: there is a strong case for pushing power as close as possible to people in Scotland, and consideration should be given to establishing new forms of local and regional leadership, such as directly elected Mayors.We have accepted the challenge that those who believe in the UK as a positive force have to and will offer a better and more trustworthy prospectus for change than independence. The alternative we put before the people of Scotland and Wales is better than either costly and destructive independence and a stagnating status quo: change within the United Kingdom that can entrench self-government in Scotland whilst improving shared government across Britain and we believe that our recommendations offer not just faster and safer change, but fairer change. We start from basic strengths built on the ingenuity of the British people. Our universities are among the best of the world. Our inventiveness – from Tim Berners-Lee’s development of the World Wide Web, to recent cutting edge advances in vaccines – is world beating. Our research institutions are admired in every continent. And English is the most used language in more countries than any other. The Scourge of Inequality All constituent states of Mexico are fully autonomous and comprise a federation. The Federal District, originally integrated by Mexico City and other municipalities, was created in 1824 to be the capital of the federation. As such, it was governed directly by the central or federal government and the president of Mexico appointed its governor or executive regent. Even though the municipalities within the Federal District were autonomous, their powers were limited. In 1928, these municipalities were abolished and transformed into non-autonomous delegaciones or boroughs and a "Central Department", later renamed as Mexico City. In 1970 this department was split into four new delegaciones, and Mexico City was constitutionally defined to be synonymous and coterminous with the entire Federal District. [8] (As such, the boroughs of the Federal District are boroughs of Mexico City). Powers to develop, conserve, manage, and regulate of surface and subsurface natural resources in the NWT for mining and minerals (including oil and gas) administration, water management, land management and environmental management; 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.

The USA has an entrenched constitution meaning the powers of the state as are very hard to change however the uncodified constitution of the uk means powers can quite easily be added/ taken away from devolved nations By showing the path to reform in both Scotland and across the United Kingdom, we end the debilitating dilemma of the Conservative years – between independence under the SNP and an embattled status quo under the current Government.Affairs, Executive and Indigenous. "Aboriginal Peoples and Devolution". www.eia.gov.nt.ca . Retrieved 2019-02-22. But, in what is likely to be Jeremy Hunt’s last pre-election autumn statement, the chancellor unveiled an array of new measures that add up to a substantial further empowerment of local leaders, with devolution set to be both extended to new parts of England and deepened in many places where metro mayors are already in post. The government is extending devolution to new areas – but some big gaps in the map remain

Enhanced protection: Welsh devolution should be constitutionally protected by strengthening the Sewel Convention and protecting it from amendment through the new second chamber. Towns and cities across England should be given new powers to drive growth and champion their areas.In federalism the national and state governments are equal whereas in devolution the central government is more powerful Devolution, federalism and a new constitution for the UK". Public Law for Everyone. 2014-01-08 . Retrieved 2019-02-22.

provinces, 1 autonomous province (Gorno-Badakhshan) and a zone of direct central rule (Districts of Republican Subordination). In Northern Ireland, our proposals can help restore and strengthen devolution, consistent with the principle of consent and the commitments of the Good Friday Agreement and at the same time, improve the prospects for economic growth and good employment prospects for the people of Northern Ireland. But it is also a crisis made in Downing Street, with economic mismanagement condemning us to recession, the biggest cut in living standards for fifty years and the return of austerity.

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. Go too to Prescot to see Shakespeare in the North, to Scotland’s National Book Town of Wigtown, or consider the National Theatre’s recent staging of Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood and you will see a United Kingdom whose common cultural heritage is endlessly reimagined and reinterpreted by communities its length and breadth, with our very diversity a source of pride. Enhanced access to economic resources for Scotland: the British Regional Investment Bank should maximise support for innovation and investment in Scotland, in conjunction with the Scottish National Investment Bank and the European Investment Bank. Cutting off too many communities from economic growth and shutting out too many of our people out from the political process are not just flaws in the way that system is operated: they are in the nature of the system itself. Our proposals form the basis of a new way forward for Scotland and the UK – greater power to enact economic and social change through the Scottish Parliament but also within a permanently reformed UK that shares social and economic objectives for better jobs, better public services and shared prosperity.