Summary of consultation responses to part two of the Silk
... devolution based on a Reserved Powers model which we think best suits distinctive
Welsh circumstances”.9
The Welsh Government also warned that:
any improvement in terms of clarity [by moving to a reserved powers model] would be
immediately undermined if the new scheme contained the same blanket rest ...
Parliament
... This became a formula almost the same today.
The Commons also acquired law-making powers by
the 15th century.
...
West Lothian question
The West Lothian question, also known as the English question, refers to whether MPs from Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, sitting in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, should be able to vote on matters that affect only England, while MPs from England are unable to vote on matters that have been devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly.The term was coined by Enoch Powell MP in 1977 after Tam Dalyell, Labour MP for the Scottish constituency of West Lothian, raised the matter repeatedly in a House of Commons debate on Scottish and Welsh devolution, as he would continue to do through the late 1970s and the 1980s. Since the establishment of Welsh and Northern Irish Assemblies and the Scottish Parliament in the 1990s, the question took on a new urgency and in 2011 the Government of the United Kingdom set up a commission to examine it. The Commission on the consequences of devolution for the House of Commons, chaired by former Clerk of the House of Commons Sir William McKay, published a report in 2013 which proposed various procedural changes, including that legislation which affects only England should require the support of a majority of MPs representing English constituencies.The West Lothian question has again come to the fore following promises of greater devolution for Scotland made during the 2014 Scottish independence referendum campaign and subsequently recommended in the report published by the Smith Commission in November 2014. The idea of ""English votes for English laws"" (EVEL) has been suggested by Conservative Party politicians as a potential solution.