The Government has dismissed calls for an English Devolution Bill in the first Queen’s Speech after the UK has left the EU.
Council leaders had made the call but a response from Whitehall said it considered that the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016 was ‘effective enabling legislation for devolving significant powers in England’.
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