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The UK Parliament can suspend devolved bodies

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Powers were devolved to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from the late 1990s, with the bodies themselves set up around 1999. Although these nations now make many of their own decisions, devolution did not make them fully independent. Ultimate authority still rests with the UK Parliament.

One sign of this is that the UK government keeps the power to suspend a devolved assembly. This has actually happened several times in Northern Ireland, when the main parties found it too difficult to work together in the power sharing system and the Assembly could not function. For the test, the key fact is that the UK government has the power to suspend the devolved assemblies, as it has done in Northern Ireland.

Memory tip: The UK government can suspend a devolved assembly; this has happened in Northern Ireland.

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  1. 1. The UK government has the power to suspend the devolved assemblies.

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    True. The UK government can suspend a devolved assembly, as has happened in Northern Ireland.

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