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Parliamentary Report

February–May 2015

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2015

Frank Cranmer
Frank Cranmer*
Affiliation:
Fellow, St Chad's College, Durham Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff University
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Events during the period under consideration were overshadowed by the result of the General Election in May, in which the Conservatives secured an overall majority and the Scottish National Party won 56 of the 59 seats in Scotland. What this will mean for issues of particular concern to readers of this Journal is unclear: but at the very least, there is already pressure for devolution of powers to the Scottish Parliament over and above those in the agreed package put forward by the all-party commission under the chairmanship of Lord Smith of Kelvin. The Scotland Bill was introduced into the Commons on 28 May and is likely to be a matter of some controversy.

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Parliamentary Report
Information
Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , September 2015 , pp. 355 - 359
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2015 

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