Sentence examples for devolving responsibilities from inspiring English sources

After the Scottish independence referendum, all political parties will go into the general election reviewing the benefits of devolving responsibilities for skills and employability programmes to local authorities and local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) in England.

Earlier this year it emerged the Department for Transport has been in discussion with the Welsh government to assess the feasibility of devolving responsibilities for the rail franchise held until 2018 by Arriva Trains Wales.

We employ the classification of decentralization proposed by Rondinelli (1983), with its four types [ 12]: a. Devolution (political decentralization) i.e. devolving responsibilities to lower level political authorities such as regional or municipal governments.

Its early centralising streak carried on the fake decentralisation of the later Thatcher and Major years, devolving responsibility without power – or much extra money.

Setting out the process for devolving responsibility for part of income tax, Cameron and Clegg said: "Wales shouldn't depend on London for these decisions.

Delivery of vaccines can be made more reliable by devolving responsibility to local government, or by hiring private courier firms, which has worked well in Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso.

A notable development in competition policy is the trend toward devolving responsibility for its implementation to independent agencies, at arm's length from government (though the degree of independence varies considerably).

Perhaps the most pernicious of all – I paraphrase – is: "We don't own the factories so we can't help what happens in them". This is usually followed by devolving responsibility to the host government.

After suffering through a severe business slowdown in the early 1990s, the company realized it could achieve substantial savings and operational improvements by centralizing warehousing, administration, and logistical support while devolving responsibility to large numbers of profit centers.

"We're devolving responsibility from the centre and will give our new operating companies the freedom to be more independent, agile and single-minded in pursuit of their objectives," said Painter.

The UK government is devolving responsibility for the benefit to the Welsh government under welfare changes.