John Cridland, director general of the employers' body, the CBI, said: "As the debate now moves to the question of further devolution, it is important that it does not undermine the strength of the single internal market and it is in the best interests of citizens living in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as those in Scotland".
The announcement comes as the largest Westminster parties continue to disagree over the question of English devolution in the aftermath of the Scottish referendum.
Election expert Professor John Curtice told the BBC that such an arrangement would intensify debate over the question of English devolution, since in order to "prop up" a Labour government, the SNP might be forced to vote on laws affecting only England, something the party has previously said it would never do.
In the documentary, he also questions the impact of devolution.
In the programme, he also questions the impact of devolution for Wales.
The make-or-buy question originally addressed by Williamson (1985) becomes thereby a question of decentralization and devolution, while the organizational dimension of the management activities at stake is explicitly spelled out with reference to the specificities of environmental matters.
But he predicted the emergence of an insoluble question in the wake of devolution: Why should Scottish members of the British Parliament continue to have a say over English affairs while English MPs lose their influence over Scottish governance?
The developments over the On The Runs raised questions about the future of devolution, and whether power-sharing is actually working.
Successive Australian governments have sought to devolve natural resource management powers to local communities (e.g. Landcare), but many questions surround the legitimacy of devolution and whether it is just an alternate form of centralised intervention (Lane et al. 2009; Marshall 2009).
First, the Maryland police programme raises the question of how extensive this devolution of surveillance from the federal government to individual states has become.
