FIVE major public bodies and institutions covering a swathe of civic Scotland are asking the Smith Commission to recommend that the new powers which emerge for Holyrood be subject to review every five ...

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Angela Rayner is set to give more power to local authorities as she pledges to transfer more powers out of Westminster in her first weeks as deputy prime minister. Dubbed the “devolution revolution”, ...

Downing Street has said devolution plans aim to give more powers to local leaders amid fears that scrapping district councils could deprive people of local representation. A redesign of local ...

Portsmouth City Council was one of four authorities to put in a "Hampshire and the Solent" devolution bid Five councils in Hampshire and Dorset have submitted applications this week asking to be part ...

Calls for the government to expand English devolution and share some tax revenue with devolved administrations – including in London – have been backed by organisations in the capital. A report by the ...

Angela Rayner will tell leaders in the north of England that she will help them “break” the system that “hoards power and investment” away from them in a speech on Friday. The Deputy Prime Minister ...

The landmark English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill is introduced to Parliament today (Thursday, July 10) promising to enable people to take back control of their regions. The bill means ...

Ministers need to think of devolution as an iterative process that will be refined over time, writes the chair of Key Cities and deputy mayor of Salford City Council. The government has made much of ...

Enoch Powell at the Conservative Party conference in 1967. He has been attributed with saying that ‘power devolved is power retained’ - HARRIS/AP The saying, attributed to Enoch Powell, that “power ...

The biggest point of contention when the English Devolution & Community Empowerment bill hits Parliament this week is likely to be something that is not even mentioned in the 338 pages of draft ...