Scotland in the United Kingdom: modernism, territory, devolved institutions and the Union

McGarvey, Neil; Kerley, Richard

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“…After Brexit, the EU treaty principle for subsidiarity can no longer be relied upon and the failure to change the UK constitution in 1999 means that the UK government can remove devolved powers as it has done in a range of ways (Morphet, 2021). While the role of the ‘deals’ made with local authorities in the DAs is frequently mentioned as an issue in the changing relationship with Whitehall (McGarvey and Kerley, 2022), they are rarely considered for their role in recentralisation of the UK state. They also highlight a policy vacuum (Beel et al, 2020) that has been opened up since the UK left the EU in 2020.…”

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“…Consideration of extending the principle of subsidiarity in the TfEU (CEC, 2001) between 2001 and 2009 coincided with a period when the Westminster Government continued to increase the powers of the DAs, first in Scotland (McGarvey and Kerley, 2022), then Wales (Jones, 2012) and Northern Ireland (Mackinnon, 2015). New localism (Miliband, 2006), introduced in England, delivered through local authority freedoms and flexibilities, was seen to be a positive approach to decentralising the state.…”

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Deals and devolution: The role of local authority deals in undermining devolved decision making

Morphet¹

2022

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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The introduction of the devolved administrations (DAs) in the UK in 1999 was based on specific legal powers for this new scale of governance which included control of national and local priorities for expenditure within devolved matters. The legal powers conferred on these administrations included freedoms to determine expenditure within budgets which, in the case of DAs, included specific allocations linked to the Barnett Formula ensuring proportional allocations of UK state expenditure in a range of policy areas and later in the DAs, powers were provided to allow direct access to borrowing and raising funding through a range of means. In the period 1999–2014, DA powers were gradually increased, first in Scotland then in Wales and Northern Ireland. However, since 2014, in the DAs, UK Central Government has been using the provision of local and sub-regional ‘deal’ funding models, controlled by Whitehall, to gradually undermine this devolved decision making. This article discusses the role devolution and deals within the context of increasing EU principles of subsidiarity and the exercise of the UK Government’s de facto and de jure powers in response. It examines the role of deals in the DAs and their lack of accountability within the UK state.

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Deals and devolution: The role of local authority deals in undermining devolved decision making

Morphet¹

2022

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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Scotland in the United Kingdom: modernism, territory, devolved institutions and the Union

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