Sentence examples for stage of devolution from inspiring English sources

A Government source in London insisted the omission of these functions would not have a substantial impact on the next stage of devolution to Scotland.

She said the coalition government was determined to achieve a "comprehensive approach to the next stage of devolution" in Wales before the general election in May.

He has set himself a deadline of St David's Day next year as a "landmark moment" to get four-party agreement on "a common baseline set of commitments" about what the next stage of devolution will look like.

He said the aim was to test whether there was any potential to see if they could come up with an agreement "on what the next stage of devolution looks like for the people of Wales".

FAR from getting rid of a headache by giving the Scots a parliament, Labour ministers in London have found that the first stages of devolution have given them a king-size migraine.

The final stage of the devolution process was the "critical last step" which would signal "enduring stability" in Northern Ireland.

"The point of devolution is for local politicians to deliver.

There was a clear majority supporting devolution in Scotland and a narrower majority in Wales; Scotland received a stronger degree of devolution than Wales.

"I think it would be inconceivable to go ahead with a further important stage and measure of devolution to parts of the United Kingdom, without addressing this issue," he told the BBC.

"Wales and Scotland are different countries on different stages of our devolution journey.

We're different countries and the SNP and Plaid Cymru are different parties and we're on different stages of our devolution journey".