{"id":58689,"date":"2015-07-02T10:36:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T10:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=df020c62c3ce88abe958db8c90dc221c"},"modified":"2015-07-02T10:36:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T10:36:14","slug":"press-release-english-veto-brings-balance-and-fairness-to-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=58689","title":{"rendered":"Press release: English veto brings balance and fairness to Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<ul>\n<li>English <abbr title=\"Members of Parliament\">MPs<\/abbr> will have right to veto measures which only affect their constituencies<\/li>\n<li>all <abbr title=\"Members of Parliament\">MPs<\/abbr> continue to vote on all key stages of legislation<\/li>\n<li>one nation government fairly balances constitutional settlement as devolution to Scotland and Wales is extended<\/li>\n<li>proposals give decisive say on tax to <abbr title=\"Members of Parliament\">MPs<\/abbr> whose constituents are affected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The government today publishes proposed changes to House of Commons rules which would give English (and English and Welsh) <abbr title=\"Members of Parliament\">MPs<\/abbr> a veto over matters which only affect them and are devolved elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The introduction of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/english-votes-for-english-laws-proposed-changes\">\u2018English votes for English laws\u2019<\/a> will see the government strengthen the constitution with changes that make the law-making process sustainable in the long term and fair to all parts of the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Under the plans every <abbr title=\"Member of Parliament\">MP<\/abbr> will continue to have a vote on every Bill.  But English <abbr title=\"Members of Parliament\">MPs<\/abbr> will now have a veto in Westminster when debating matters that have been devolved to the Scottish Parliament or the Welsh or Northern Ireland Assemblies.<\/p>\n<p>The proposals will also give the decisive say over tax measures to <abbr title=\"Members of Parliament\">MPs<\/abbr> whose constituents are affected by those changes once further planned devolution to Scotland takes place.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Grayling, Leader of the House of Commons, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s really important everyone feels our constitutional arrangements are fair, so this one nation government will end the anomaly that a majority of English <abbr title=\"Members of Parliament\">MPs<\/abbr> can be outvoted on matters which are devolved elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">At a time when we\u2019re giving more power to the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly, it\u2019s right the English should have a veto over things that only affect their constituents.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>Find out more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/english-votes-for-english-laws-proposed-changes\">English votes for English laws: proposed changes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"notes-to-editors\">Notes to editors<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>Legislation is not required to implement the reforms. Amended Standing Orders, if approved by the Commons, will come into effect before the summer recess.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>For the first time decisions about England (or England and Wales) \u2013 such as how the police are funded, how schools are organised and how money is shared out among councils \u2013 will be approved or vetoed by <abbr title=\"Members of Parliament\">MPs<\/abbr> representing England or England and Wales only.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The Procedure Committee will be invited to review progress after the first bills subject to the new rules become acts of Parliament. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Different parts of the UK have different devolution settlements \u2013 see which areas the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/devolution-settlement-scotland\">Scottish,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/devolution-settlement-wales\">Welsh<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/devolution-settlement-northern-ireland\">Northern Irish<\/a> administrations legislate on.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Existing block grant voting arrangements remain unchanged. The block grant allocations to the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly, and the Northern Ireland Assembly are calculated at spending reviews and adjusted regularly following decisions taken at fiscal events such as budgets or autumn statements. Approval from Parliament to pay funds into the respective devolved Consolidated Funds is granted through the supply estimates process \u2013 itself not subject to the English votes process.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has published proposed changes which would give English and Welsh MPs a veto over devolved matters which only affect them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}