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GCSE Citizenship Studies · key term
The question of why MPs from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland can vote on England-only matters at Westminster when MPs from England cannot vote on equivalent matters devolved elsewhere.
Used by AQA and Edexcel
Paper 1
Revise: Organization of PowersThe West Lothian Question identifies an imbalance. MPs representing Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish constituencies can vote at Westminster on England-only matters, but MPs representing English constituencies cannot vote on equivalent matters decided by devolved legislatures.
Paper 1, Paper 2
The question of whether MPs representing Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should vote on laws affecting only England when equivalent devolved decisions elsewhere are made by those nations’ legislatures.
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Yet equivalent devolved decisions in Scotland, for example, are made by the Scottish Parliament rather than by English MPs. This imbalance is known as the West Lothian question.
