The report of an independent commission (led by Paul Silk) recommended that the Welsh government should have the power to vary income tax by 2020.
Source: Empowerment and Responsibility: Financial powers to strengthen Wales, Commission on Devolution in Wales
Links: Report | Summary | Welsh Government press release | Hansard | Wales Office press release | CHC press release | Plaid Cymru press release | BBC report | Guardian report | Public Finance report | Telegraph report
Date: 2012-Nov
A new book examined the process of devolution undertaken in the United Kingdom since 1997, focusing on the devolution of economic governance. It considered the purported reasons for, and the unintended consequences of, devolution.
Source: Mark Goodwin, Martin Jones, and Rhys Jones, Rescaling the State: Devolution and the geographies of economic governance, Manchester University Press
Links: Summary
Date: 2012-Sep
The Wales Office published its annual report and accounts for 2011-12.
Source: Annual Report and Accounts 2011-12, HC 28, Wales Office, TSO
Links: Report | Wales Office press release
Date: 2012-Sep
The Welsh Government published the first-ever annual progress report on its programme for government, detailing action taken and relevant indicators across a wide range of policy areas.
Source: Programme for Government: Annual Report May 2012, Welsh Government
Links: Report | Welsh Government press release | Plaid Cymru press release
Date: 2012-May
The Welsh Government began consultation on whether Wales should be a separate legal jurisdiction from England and the rest of the United Kingdom.
Source: A Separate Legal Jurisdiction for Wales, Welsh Government
Links: Consultation document | Welsh Government press release
Date: 2012-Mar
An article examined how and what petitions could contribute to social policy following the introduction of petitions systems by the National Assembly for Wales and the Scottish Parliament. In particular, it explored the extent to which petitions systems challenged or replicated existing inequalities; what voices and interests they enabled to be heard; and what impact they could have on social policy.
Source: Catherine Bochel, 'Petitions: different dimensions of voice and influence in the Scottish Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales', Social Policy and Administration, Volume 46 Number 2
Links: Abstract
Date: 2012-Feb
An article examined the 'economic dividend' of devolution in the United Kingdom. There had been a 'varied and uneven' relationship between regional disparities, spatial economic policy, and decentralization. There was limited evidence for any economic dividend of devolution, because its likely effects were overridden by the role of national economic growth.
Source: Andy Pike, Andres Rodriguez-Pose, John Tomaney, Gianpiero Torrisi, and Vassilis Tselios, 'In search of the "economic dividend" of devolution: spatial disparities, spatial economic policy, and decentralisation in the UK', Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Volume 30 Number 1
Links: Abstract
Date: 2012-Jan
