Chapter 4 Multiple-choice questions

. Which statements below are correct? Please select all that apply.

Devolution concerns the decentralisation of power.

Devolution involves the delegation of legislative and executive power to regional and local bodies.

With devolution, the UK Parliament retains ultimate legal authority.

Devolution involves the UK Parliament giving up its legal authority to other bodies.

. Which section of the Scotland Act 1998 provides that the UK Parliament retains the right to legislate on all matters in Scotland?

Section 28(1)

Section 28(2)

Section 28(7)

Section 29(1)

. The Northern Ireland Act 1998 provided that: Please select all that apply.

Northern Ireland will remain part of the UK unless the majority of the people of Northern Ireland vote to leave in a referendum.

Excepted matters are issues of national importance to the UK as a whole.

The Northern Ireland Assembly has power to make law on excepted or reserved matters.

The UK Parliament continues to legislate on reserved matters but the Secretary of State may decide to devolve a reserved matter to the Northern Ireland Assembly.

. Legislation made by devolved bodies may be judicially reviewed by the courts.

True

False

. The court in AXA General Insurance Ltd v HM Advocate [2011] UKSC 46 stated that decisions of the Scottish Parliament should be treated in the same way as decisions of local authorities.

True

False

. In England, local government consists only of a single-tier structure.

True

False

. Police and Crime Commissioners were introduced to: Please select all that apply.

replace elected mayors.

hold the police to account in their local communities in England and Wales.

promote local democracy.

make police scrutiny more visible.

. The 'city devolution' programme enabled devolution agreements to be made between:

central government and the Scottish Parliament.

central government and the Welsh Assembly.

local authorities.

central government and combined authorities.

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