• MPs at Westminster should have a say on English education when the Westminster Parliament has none on education in Scotland.

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  • Wales's Assembly, unlike the Westminster Parliament, is elected for a fixed term, so there is no possibility of new Assembly elections.

    ECONOMIST: Wales

  • The eventual outcome depends entirely on how politicians and voters react to the new assemblies, and how those assemblies behave towards the Westminster Parliament.

    ECONOMIST: Devolution: The choice for Scotland and Wales | The

  • This may offend Labour's devolution purists, who insist that the whole point of the exercise is to end the Westminster parliament's interference in Scottish affairs.

    ECONOMIST: Scottish devolution

  • Merely by summoning these bodies into being, he has undermined the supremacy of the Westminster Parliament, which many hold to be the one fixed point in Britain's constitution.

    ECONOMIST: Undoing Britain?

  • The relatively low turn-out of Scottish voters, 58% compared with 71% in the last election, shows that Scots still value the Westminster Parliament more highly than their new one.

    ECONOMIST: From now on, Britain will have to get used to coalitions

  • There is also the question of what Scottish members of the Westminster Parliament will do there when their constituents start to take their troubles to their representatives in Edinburgh.

    ECONOMIST: Sunshine and showers

  • However, the party has decided to contest a small number of seats this year to remind people how many major green issues are still under the control of the Westminster parliament.

    BBC: Socialists pledge help for poor

  • In Scotland, the party can claim credit for having enacted a Freedom of Information Act that is more liberal than the weak one Jack Straw is piloting through the Westminster Parliament.

    ECONOMIST: The Scottish play

  • Broadly speaking, it will not be able to raise tax or amend acts of the Westminster Parliament, but instead will take over the responsibilities of the Welsh Office, in particular policy for health and education.

    ECONOMIST: Wales

  • No doubt the Westminster Parliament would have talked about these issues even if there'd been no devolution - but it would have been a more distant discussion, more easily ignored and needing less of a local contribution.

    BBC: One last, lingering look behind

  • As well as the timing and wording of the ballot, the two sides have disagreed on whether the voting age should be lowered for the referendum (Mr Salmond says that it should) and whether it should be overseen by the Electoral Commission, which Nationalists testily point out is answerable to the Westminster Parliament.

    ECONOMIST: Scottish independence

  • Britain's influence lives on in the country's Westminster-style parliament, while some bank notes and coins still sport Queen Elizabeth's image.

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  • We see a federal parliament at Westminster, and very young parliaments in Scotland and Wales, but no similar parliament in England.

    ECONOMIST: A constitution for Europe

  • Until 1986 the republican movement rejected not just Parliament in Westminster and the notion of a Northern Ireland assembly, but also the legitimacy of the Irish state and its parliament.

    ECONOMIST: North meets South

  • In the shadow of Parliament is Westminster Abbey , used for the coronation and burial of British monarchs.

    CNN: London: What to see

  • In May an address to both British houses of Parliament in Westminster added to his stature as a statesman.

    ECONOMIST: Bertie Ahern wins it once more for Fianna Fail

  • Mr Tyson, indeed, has succeeded in opening up the first constitutional row between the new Scottish Parliament and Westminster.

    ECONOMIST: Punch-up

  • The Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg told me that it would bring the gravy train of European Parliament to Westminster.

    BBC: Martha Kearney's week

  • The legislation implements recommendations of the Calman Commission to hand control of some taxes from Westminster to the Scottish Parliament.

    BBC: Scotland Bill part one

  • Sir Cyril was famously outspoken and could be disdainful of Westminster, once branding Parliament as "the longest-running farce in the West End".

    BBC: Funeral held for Sir Cyril Smith in Rochdale

  • Long, the Alliance Party's sole lawmaker in the UK Parliament at Westminster, has called on British Prime Minister David Cameron to intervene.

    CNN: Policewoman targeted as Northern Ireland tensions rise

  • In other words, parties which have seats in Westminster, the European Parliament, the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly, the NI Assembly (when appropriate).

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  • Compare that with the remarks she made in 1977 on the occasion of her Silver Jubilee address to both Houses of Parliament at Westminster.

    BBC: Royal role in independence debate

  • This process, known as devolution, would effectively transfer a whole swathe of law making and administrative powers from Westminster to the Scottish Parliament and Scottish Executive.

    BBC: Devolution in Scotland

  • He said that, despite the creation of the new Scottish Parliament, Westminster remained important because of the number of powers which were still controlled from London.

    BBC: SNP playing for dream victory

  • The bill, which has already cleared the Commons, implements recommendations of the Calman Commission to transfer control over some fiscal policies from Westminster to the Scottish Parliament.

    BBC: Scotland Bill part one

  • But he still has to find a suitable female running-mate from a neighbouring constituency, if he is to switch as he plans from Westminster to the Edinburgh parliament.

    ECONOMIST: Scottish politics

  • Less than a quarter plumped for the Parliament in Westminster.

    ECONOMIST: Britain

  • The law on benefits is a reserved matter, controlled by the UK parliament at Westminster, but Mr Dailly said Holyrood could change the law in areas that it does control.

    BBC: 'Bedroom tax' call for action from Holyrood

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