devolution
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Morgan has been trying to strike a balance: differentiating the Welsh party from UK Labour, but also pushing for extra funding, further devolution of powers and big investment announcements from her UK colleagues.
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The BGA was intended to stop either government being better or worse off due to devolution.
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If UK income tax receipts go up, so does the size of the block grant adjustment – and devolution means ministers here get to decide if they replicate the tax rises.
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Lawmakers have been grappling with this issue for a long time but the pace of change has picked up since devolution in 1999.
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More than five years have passed since Stormont's main parties agreed to these posts under a deal to restore devolution.
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