The Government is still in ‘explorer mode' when it comes to devolution, ‘drawing the map as it goes along' according to the head of the National Audit Office (NAO) which monitors public spending.

In his comment on an NAO report published last week on the 10 English bids agreed so far, its head Amyas Morse said: ‘Despite several iterations of deals, the Government's approach to English devolution still has an air of charting undiscovered territory. It is in explorer mode, drawing the map as it goes along.