Martin Partington: Spotlight on the Justice System

A consequence of the Referendum on Scottish Devolution was that the Prime Minister, David Cameron, announced that he wanted not only to devolve more legislative power to the Scottish Government, but also wanted to ensure that only English MPs were able to vote on Bills that would only have effect in England.
The issue of English Votes for English Laws has proved to be extremely controversial.
A first attempt to create a new parliamentary procedure for dealing with the issue was set out in a paper published by the Cabinet Office in July 2015.
However it ran into serious difficulties in debate in the House of Commons, and the Government decided to rethink how it was going to implement Mr Cameron’s pledge. Revised proposals are expected in the near future.

The text of the original Cabinet Office paper can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/english-votes-for-english-laws-proposed-changes