Three of the four parties in the Assembly Labour, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats—strongly supported devolution.
Stephanie Hyde, a PwC executive board member, called on the government to support devolution, claiming it would further strengthen the economy in the north.
While this is a challenging spending review for local government, it is encouraging to see measures aimed at supporting devolution, however the devil will be in the detail.
The shadow energy secretary, Lisa Nandy, said: "It's hypocritical for ministers to support devolution and local democracy for decision-making over windfarms, only to then trample over the views of local communities when it comes to fracking.
"Ministers say they support devolution to our towns and cities so they should back these council leaders by ending their attack on the schemes that can help to make this safer, cleaner future a reality".
That, he says, is why independent-minded Scotland has been given a law-making Parliament, whereas Wales, whose voters supported devolution by the slenderest of whiskers, has ended up with a much smaller assembly with no primary law-making powers at all.So which is it, ticking time bomb or empirical political genius?
UK ministers say the Scottish government must bring forward evidence to support devolution of further enhanced powers.
There was a clear majority supporting devolution in Scotland and a narrower majority in Wales; Scotland received a stronger degree of devolution than Wales.
The Orkney Movement, a political party that supported devolution for Orkney from the rest of Scotland, contested the 1987 general election as the Orkney and Shetland Movement (a coalition of the Orkney movement and its equivalent for Shetland).
