Conclusion 8

As a consequence of the establishment and subsequent development of devolved institutions in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, there is now a legitimate degree of uncertainty about how England fits into the UK ‘s constitutional arrangements. This is in many ways an odd problem as in practice nothing has changed for England, as it was governed by the UK Government before devolution and it continues to be so. However, the introduction of devolution did fundamentally alter the UK’s constitutional arrangements, and while the effects of this for England have been less immediate, the more the institutions in devolved nations have developed and become an established part of the UK’s constitutional architecture, the more awkward and potentially problematic the position of England becomes.