Welsh devolution referendum, 1997

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	Alumni and friends Notable alumni Peter Hain
		Having played a leading role in the campaign to secure a 'Yes' vote in the 1997 referendum in Wales, the Welsh Secretary remains a passionate advocate of devolution and its impact on the Welsh people.
		Yet, in a country as remarkably diverse as Britain, the definition of 'Britishness' and 'British identity' is as mired in controversy as the dichotomy between devolution and nationalism.
		Both issues have, in fact, been prominent in the political debate since Tony Blair came to power in 1997.
	www.sussex.ac.uk /Units/alumni/notable_alumni/interviews/Hain_interview.html (1291 words)

	Trades Union Congress - Verbatim report of Congress 1997, Tuesday 9th September session.
		Nationalists in Scotland and Wales see devolution as a step towards independence, but devolution is not about the dead‑end of narrow nationalism: it is about the realisation of the rhetoric "power to the people" within the context of the United Kingdom.
		The referendums in Scotland and Wales are not only of vital importance to the citizens of those two nations but to the people of England as well.
		It was not just the day we made Scotland and Wales a Tory‑free zone; it was also the day the Scottish and Welsh people could at last see their dream of a Scottish Parliament and a Welsh Assembly becoming reality.
	www.tuc.org.uk /congress/tuc-2423-f11.cfm (1291 words)

	Wales referendum, 1997 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The referendum was a manifesto commitment of the Labour Party and was held in their first term after the United Kingdom general election, 1997.
		It was generally believed that the Labour government scheduled the referendum as it did because it foresaw the embarrassment of a defeat, and therefore arranged for the Scotland referendum to be held slightly earlier, in the hope that the anticipated result would influence the Welsh result.
		This was the second referendum held in Wales over the question of devolution, the first being the Wales referendum, 1979.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wales_referendum,_1997 (348 words)

	Wales and Devolution
		Devolution promised to be a key issue in Wales but the turnout at the post-election referendum in 1997 for whether Wales should have a devolved assembly seemed to indicate that enthusiasm for devolution was lukewarm.
		Wales, along with Scotland and Northern Ireland, was promised a devolved assembly by the Labour Party in the lead up to the 1997 election.
		Wales turned towards the issue of devolution during the era of Thatcher and Major – the Tory years of 1979 to 1997.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /wales_and_devolution.htm (594 words)

	Wales referendum, 1997 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was generally believed that the Labour government scheduled the referendum as it did because it foresaw the embarrassment of a defeat, and therefor arranged for the Scotland referendum to be held slightly earlier, in the hope that the anticipated result would influence the Welsh result.
		This was the second referendum held in Wales over the question of devolution, the first being the
		referendum in Scotland, there was no proposal for the assembly to have tax varying powers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wales_referendum,_1997 (594 words)

	BBC NEWS Wales Wales Office in melting pot
		The Wales 1997 referendum's razor-thin majority of 50.3% for devolution gave the green light for the transfer of powers from Whitehall.
		The Constitution Unit, an independent think-tank, also called for the individual post of Welsh secretary to be scrapped in a March 2001 report.
		Labour's 1997 election victory saw Ron Davies, Alun Michael, Paul Murphy and the present occupier, Peter Hain, take the Cabinet seat for Wales.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/wales/2978760.stm (527 words)

	LLRX.com - Devolution in the United Kingdom: A Revolution in Online Legal Research
		Although the cries for welsh devolution were never as strong as the scottish, the Labour party in the 1990's recognized the need for a limited amount of welsh empowerment.
		Referendums Act 1997 culminating in a September 1997 referendum in Scotland and Wales.
		Devolution refers to the ‘transfer and subsequent sharing of powers between institutions of government within a limited framework set out in legislation.’ The process of devolution in the United Kingdom is neither new nor necessarily complete.
	www.llrx.com /features/devolution.htm (4207 words)

	The 1979 General Election - Westminster
		Andrew Welsh was SNP MP for Angus East between 1987 and 1997 and has been SNP MP for Angus since 1997 and SNP MSP for Angus since 1999.
		Following the disappointing Yes vote in the devolution referendum, the pro-devolution Scottish National Party and Scottish Labour Party lost ground to the anti-devolution Conservative and Labour parties.
		Winnie Ewing was SNP MEP for the Highland & Islands between 1979 and 1999, and has been SNP MSP for the Highlands & Islands since 1999.
	www.scottishpolitics.org /elections/1979election.html (4207 words)

	Wales and Devolution
		Devolution promised to be a key issue in Wales but the turnout at the post-election referendum in 1997 for whether Wales should have a devolved assembly seemed to indicate that enthusiasm for devolution was lukewarm.
		Therefore, the Welsh Labour Party would have to engage in sufficient horse-trading from other Welsh Assembly members to support its bills or the bills could get voted out if all the other parties mustered their votes as one unit in opposition – a potential, if unlikely, scenario.
		Wales, along with Scotland and Northern Ireland, was promised a devolved assembly by the Labour Party in the lead up to the 1997 election.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /wales_and_devolution.htm (4207 words)

	Secretary of State for Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The introduction of the Welsh Assembly and its Cabinet following the devolution referendum of 1997 was the beginning of a new era.
		In April of 1965 administration of Welsh affairs, which had previously been divided between a number of government departments were united in a newly created Welsh Office with the Secretary of State for Wales at its head.
		The Welsh Office was disbanded but the post of Secretary of State for Wales was retained, as the head of the newly created Wales Office.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Welsh_Secretary (411 words)

	Wales
		In the referendum of Sept. 18, 1997, Welsh citizens voted to establish a National Assembly.
		In recent years, a resurgence of the Welsh language and culture has demonstrated a stronger national identity among the Welsh, and politically the country moved toward greater self-government (devolution).
		Beginning in the 8th century, the various Welsh tribes fought with their Anglo-Saxon neighbors to the east, but the Welsh were able to thwart attempted invasions.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0777807.html (539 words)

	Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Welcome to Cool Cymru
		The establishment of the Welsh Assembly in 1997, the first political assembly since Owain Glyndwr disappeared in 1406, followed a referendum in which the majority in favour of devolution was only 7,000.
		The threat to Welsh isn't quite so brutal as it was in the 19th century, when speaking Welsh was regarded as offensive by Anglocentric educators.
		The nurturing of the Welsh language, when the other Celtic tongues that were once widely spoken across the British Isles survive hardly at all, is a great source of Welsh pride.
	www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,3604,1322461,00.html (539 words)

	ipedia.com: National Assembly for Wales Article
		The National Assembly for Wales (known in Welsh as Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru) was established in 1998, following a 1997 referendum in which a small majority of voters (but not the electorate) voted in favour of the Labour Government's plans for devolution.
		The National Assembly for Wales was established in 1998, following a 1997 referendum in which a small majority of voters voted in favour of the Labour Government's plans for devolution.
		However, supporters of the Assembly argue that it is more democratically accountable than the Welsh Office, which was represented in the British Cabinet by a Secretary of State who often did not even represent a Welsh constituency at Westminster.
	www.ipedia.com /national_assembly_for_wales.html (349 words)

	Encyclopedia: Forward Wales
		The National Assembly for Wales (or NAW) (Welsh: Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru) was established in 1998, following a 1997 referendum in which a small majority of voters (but not the electorate) voted in favour of the Labour Governments plans for devolution.
		Forward Wales (or Cymru Ymlaen in Welsh) is a political party operating in Wales.
		Wales should enjoy parity with Scotland within the current constitutional arrangements in the UK and should enjoy no fewer powers than any other of the UK nations or regions should any further devolution arrangements be enacted.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Forward-Wales (993 words)

	Wales and Devolution
		Devolution promised to be a key issue in Wales but the turnout at the post-election referendum in 1997 for whether Wales should have a devolved assembly seemed to indicate that enthusiasm for devolution was lukewarm.
		Wales turned towards the issue of devolution during the era of Thatcher and Major – the Tory years of 1979 to 1997.
		Wales, along with Scotland and Northern Ireland, was promised a devolved assembly by the Labour Party in the lead up to the 1997 election.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /wales_and_devolution.htm (594 words)

	BBC News UK Politics Assembly Members take up power
		However, when the devolution referendum for Wales was actually held on 18 September 1997, the government's proposals for a Welsh Assembly were endorsed by a margin of fewer than 7,000 votes.
		In Wales, the appointment during that period of four successive secretaries of state who did not represent Welsh seats intensified devolution calls.
		Welsh Secretary Alun Michael handed a copy of the Transfer of Functions Order to the National Assembly's Presiding Officer Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas on Wednesday afternoon in a ceremony to mark the handover of power.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/uk_politics/382706.stm (463 words)

	Encyclopedia: Plaid Cymru
		Two younger men, Dafydd Wigley and Dafydd Elis-Thomas, won Parliamentary seats in 1974, inheriting the mantle of leadership in turn, and the party gained ground until the successful devolution referendum of 1997, following which the Welsh Assembly was set up.
		On 15 September 2003 the well-known folk-singer and long-time activist Dafydd Iwan was elected Plaid Cymru's new President, while Ieuan Wyn Jones was re-elected party leader in the Welsh Assembly.
		The Right Honourable Dafydd Wigley (born April 1, 1943) is a Welsh politician.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Plaid-Cymru (3504 words)

	BBC News Elections Wales 99 Constituencies Vale of Clwyd
		The seat lies within the Denbighshire local authority whose electors voted No in the 1997 devolution referendum by a majority of 6,461.
		Despite being in Labour hands, the seat is potentially vulnerable to the Conservatives, who held the former Clwyd North West as their strongest Welsh seat for many years, and who also held the former Delyn seat, by narrower margins, until 1992.
		Inland, the comparatively prosperous Vale of Clwyd has some of the best farming land in Wales and has high proportions of Welsh speakers.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/vote_99/wales_99/html/constituency/43.stm (3504 words)

	FT.com - Special Reports / UK Election 2001
		It was Plaid Cymru's only realistic target seat in the 1997 elections, and some three months later in September 1997 it was Carmarthen that became the final authority to record an overwhelming Yes vote to the referendum on a Welsh Assembly.
		Carmarthen East and Dinefwr is mainly rural and predominantly Welsh speaking.
		Following Carmarthen's endorsement of devolution, it was not long before Plaid Cymru was able to reap some of the benefit.
	specials.ft.com /ukelection2001/FT3UV6O0KKC.html (3504 words)

	CNN - British election results a mixed bag for Blair, Labour - May 7, 1999
		The Scottish Parliament and Welsh assembly were proposed by Blair's government as part of its plan to decentralize power from the British Parliament in London, a process known as "devolution."
		Scottish voters overwhelmingly endorsed the idea in a referendum two years ago, and the SNP, led by Alex Salmond, began to gain ground against Labour, which is traditionally powerful in Scotland.
		The results were something of a redemption for the Conservatives, who didn't win a single Scottish seat in the 1997 national election.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9905/07/british.elex (3504 words)

	BBC - History - The path to devolution 1997
		The Labour government elected in 1997- an election in which the Conservatives won no Welsh seats at all - offered a second referendum in 1997.
		However, the right-wing policies of the Thatcher years rekindled awareness that Wales was governed by political ideas unacceptable to the Welsh electorate, and the appointment of palpable outsiders - John Redwood in particular - to the office of secretary of state revive the issue.
		Partly in order to stave off the Nationalist challenge, the Labour government elected in 1964 established the Welsh Office and appointed a secretary of state for Wales, thus creating a new context for discussion of the government of Wales.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/timelines/wales/devolution.shtml (411 words)

	National Assembly for Wales
		The Assembly was created by the July 1998 Government of Wales Act, which was passed following the Welsh electorate's narrow approval of government proposals in an 18 September 1997 referendum on devolution.
		The assembly has taken over virtually all of the functions of the Secretary of State for Wales, spending the Welsh Office& £7 billion budget.
		The assembly may pass secondary legislation, but, unlike the Scottish Parliament, does not have primary law-making powers, even in areas such as the Welsh language.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0064603.html (327 words)

	BBC NEWS Wales Wales Office in melting pot
		The Wales 1997 referendum's razor-thin majority of 50.3% for devolution gave the green light for the transfer of powers from Whitehall.
		The Welsh Office itself was set up in 1964 and took powers within Wales from a number of UK Whitehall departments.
		The Constitution Unit, an independent think-tank, also called for the individual post of Welsh secretary to be scrapped in a March 2001 report.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/2978760.stm (483 words)

	Basic Information
		The Assembly is part of the devolution drive of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who won a landslide election in 1997 on the back of promises of referenda for government in the regional nations of the United Kingdom: Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
		Yes' voters celebrate victory in the referendum for a Welsh assembly, 1997
		Evaluation of the internship experience will be based on the assessment by the internship supervisor at the Assembly, participation in the orientation, and a brief presentation to University of Wales Swansea faculty at the end of the term.
	www.cas.ohiou.edu /pols/walesinternship/basic_information.htm (532 words)

	Institute of Welsh Affairs
		The results provide a highly positive measure of the devolution process in Wales with 62% now in favour of the Assembly and 38% opposed, a significant shift when compared with the referendum in 1997.
		In addition, the poll shows that traditional regional cleavages within Wales have narrowed suggesting that a more cohesive Welsh attitude to devolution is emerging.
		The six regions used were North West Wales (Anglesey, Conwy, Gwynedd); North East Wales (Denbighshire, Flintshire, Wrexham); South-West and Mid-Wales (Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, Powys, Swansea); Valleys (Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath Port Talbot, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Torfaen); South-East Wales (Bridgend, Monmouthshire, Newport, Vale of Glamorgan); and Cardiff.
	www.iwa.org.uk /debate/wales_poll_debate.html (305 words)

	Parliament.aspx?id=10375&glossary=true
		The National Assembly for Wales was set up as part of the process of Devolution initiated by the Labour Government elected in 1997.
		The Welsh people voted in 1998 to set up the Assembly in a referendum.
		The new Assembly took over the responsibilities of the Welsh Office and has powers to make secondary, but not primary, legislation.
	www.explore.parliament.uk /Parliament.aspx?id=10375&glossary=true (78 words)

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