More localised policymaking would certainly help Scottish small businesses in at least one way: Scottish Enterprise, the former Scottish Development Agency, is already a devolved agency and therefore survived the cull of regional development agencies in 2011 – nevertheless, Westminster policy on small business support remains centralised and offers Scottish firms little practical support.
As a devolved matter it is for the Scottish people to decide how best to spend resources on health services," the department of health said in a statement.
If the UK is to function as a devolved democracy, it needs stronger local news, regional news and news services for the nations".
The point of the CPA, in its own wording, is "to make unity attractive to the south"; that is, to give the south as many reasons as possible to stay as a devolved part of a greater Sudan.
We've had a good relationship and as a devolved region, as a first minister, it's essential that we have a good relationship with whichever party is in government.
As an idea, Britain was "declining and out of date".Now, as head of a devolved Scottish government, hosting The Economist in his Georgian drawing room (open fire, elegant sofas, fine plasterwork) he was on his most conciliatory form.
The committee concentrated on litter in England as it is a devolved issue in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
As health is a devolved matter within the UK, responsibility for policy development and service delivery lies with the parliament of each of the home nations.
Mr Gove's plans relate to England only as education is a devolved matter and is under the control of the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
Opposition parties who support the Union - Labour, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, as well as the Westminster government - said Scotland, with a devolved parliament as part of the Union, benefitted from having "the best of both worlds".
