Sewel (other)
Sewel may refer to: *John Sewel, Baron Sewel, member of the British House of Lords *Legislative Consent Motion (called a Sewel Motion in relation to Scotland), a procedure whereby a devolved parliament in the United Kingdom gives the central government permission to legislate on a devolved matter See also * Sewell (other) * Sewall Sewall is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Arthur Sewall (1835–1900), Shipbuilder and American Democratic politician from Maine * Charles S. Sewall (1779–1848), American politician * Doug Sewall, American wheelchair curle ...

John Sewel, Baron Sewel
John Buttifant Sewel, Baron Sewel (), CBE (born 15 January 1946), is a British politician, life peer, and former academic. He was the Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords, its deputy speaker. He is also a former senior vice principal of the University of Aberdeen and former parliamentary Under-Secretary of State. He was made a Labour minister in the Scottish Office department of the Blair Government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland in 1997, where he assisted Donald Dewar in steering through the legislation that led to the creation of the Scottish Parliament. His name is given to the Sewel motion, parliamentary device passed by the Scottish Parliament, in which it agrees that the United Kingdom parliament may pass legislation on a devolved issue extending to Scotland, over which the Scottish Parliament has regular legislative authority. He left ministerial office in 1999 upon the new Parliament taking over the majority of the Scottish Office's f ...
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Legislative Consent Motion
A legislative consent motion (LCM, also known as a Sewel motion in Scotland) is a motion passed by either the Scottish Parliament, Senedd, or Northern Ireland Assembly, in which it consents that the Parliament of the United Kingdom may (or may not) pass legislation on a devolved issue over which the devolved government has regular legislative authority. , the three devolved governments have refused or partially refused legislative consent motions on 20 occasions. However, even if consent is refused, the Parliament of the United Kingdom may still pass legislation on the devolved issue in question under the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty and the understanding that the United Kingdom is a unitary state. Background The Scotland Act 1998 devolved many issues relating to legislation for Scotland to the Scottish Parliament. The UK Parliament maintains parliamentary sovereignty and may legislate on any issue, with or without the permission of the devolved assemblies and pa ...
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Sewell (other)
Sewell may refer to: *Sewell (name), a surname and given name, including lists of people with the name *Sewell, Bedfordshire *Sewell, Chile *Sewell, New Jersey *Sewell's Point, Norfolk, Virginia, United States *22815 Sewell, an asteroid See also *Sewall, British Columbia, Canada, sometimes misspelled Sewell *Sewall, a surname *Seawell, a surname *Sewel (other) *Suwellel, a vernacular name of the mountain beaver (''Aplodontia rufa)'' *Swell (other) Swell may refer to: In nature *Swell, another name for a geographic hillock *Swell (ocean), a formation of long wavelength ocean surface waves *Swell (geology), a large domed area Places * Swell, Somerset, a hamlet in the Somerset parish of Fiv ... * Sowell {{Disambiguation, geo ...
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