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Rt. Hon. Sir Alan Beith MPLiberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Berwick Upon TweedWorking for you and the Berwick upon Tweed Constituency all year roundin Northumberland and in Westminster |
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Beith's committee welcomes Calman Commission's report on devolution in Scotland.
June 15, 2009 12:00 PM
The Justice Committee, which is chaired by Berwick's Liberal Democrat MP Sir Alan Beith, has welcomed the publication of Sir Kenneth Calman's report on devolution in Scotland, Serving Scotland Better: Scotland and the United Kingdom in the 21st Century. The Justice Committee published its report Devolution: a decade on, on 24 May 2009, which considered the impact of ten years of devolution on the United Kingdom.
Alan Beith MP said:
"We welcome the work of the Calman Commission on how devolution could be developed in Scotland, but these recommendations need to be considered alongside the Justice Committee's report, which raised issues about the governance of England, which we described as the "unfinished business" of devolution".
"We also welcome the recommendation that the Barnett formula is no longer an appropriate mechanism upon which to base funding decisions and welcome the interest that Sir Kenneth Calman has taken in the component parts of the United Kingdom, which were also considered in our report, Devolution: a decade on."
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