Devolution in England Debate
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Lord Wallace of Saltaire
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Devolution in England
Lord Wallace of Saltaire Excerpts(4 years, 3 months ago)
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Lord Greenhalgh (Con)
My Lords, I do not recognise that policy paper. There was a firm commitment in the Queen’s Speech to full devolution in England but, as I said, looking to do this in a way that works with local communities.
Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD) [V]
My Lords, I understand devolution to mean the transfer of powers, competences and finance. Decentralisation of tasks under central direction with conditional funding seems to me to be what this Government propose, together with bits of Whitehall departments being sent out to the provinces but still entirely controlled by Cabinet Ministers in London. Can the Minister tell us the Government’s definition of devolution for England?