In 1997 Ron Davies, the former secretary of state for Wales (1997–98) and an architect of devolution for Wales, described devolution as ‘a process and not an event’. In saying this he was referring to the long campaign to achieve devolution in Wales, as well as indicating that he could see further powers being given to the devolved institutions over time. Box 1 outlines some of the milestones in the process of devolution in Wales.
The devolution settlement following the referendum in 1997 gave the Welsh government (or Welsh Assembly, as it was known then) power over a range of domestic policy areas. The ‘yes’ vote in the referendum of 2011 extended the Welsh government’s (the executive) power to propose actual bills to the Welsh Assembly (the legislature) in 20 policy areas, without gaining the consent of the UK government in London.
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