UK’s Changing Union Project Concluding Statement

The UK’s Changing Union project has been a collaboration between the Wales Governance Centre at Cardiff University, the Institute of Welsh Affairs and Cymru Yfory/Tomorrow’s Wales. The project itself has been working on the devolution settlement in Wales and across the United Kingdom from 2012 to 2014.

After three years of intensive analysis and discussion that has ranged across all four countries of the UK, as well as presenting extensive evidence to the Commission on Devolution in Wales (the Silk Commission), the project presented a series reflections in February 2015 to you with the objective of ensuring that, in the wake of the Scottish referendum in September 2013, Wales was genuinely at the heart of the debate on the future of the union.

Since the constitutional debate continues to be a live and moving process, rather than firm recommendations the report sets out a range of issues that it believes should be central to the continuing deliberations on this subject.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Devolution Following the Scotland Referendum http://www.europeansources.info/record/debate-on-29-october-2014-devolution-following-the-scotland-referendum-lords-library-note/

Wales Governance Centre: UK's Changing Union, February 2015 http://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/wgc/files/2015/02/UKCU-Concluding-Statement-January-2015.pdf

ESO: Background information: Reaching agreement on changes to Wales’ devolution settlement http://www.europeansources.info/record/blog-reaching-agreement-on-changes-to-wales-devolution-settlement/

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