Question follow-through · 93002
Devolution
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to ask government departments not to use the phrase devolved nations when referring to devolved administrations or legislatures.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 20 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 2 Dec 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, if he will make it his policy to ask government departments not to use the phrase devolved nations when referring to devolved administrations or legislatures.
24 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2025
Answer published
Yes. This is already the Government's position. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should be referred to by name or collectively as nations. Certain powers are devolved to institutions within those nations, which benefit from having two governments serv...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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