https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/tags/welsh-devolution/Recent content in Welsh Devolution on Vaults of the ODDHugoen-gbTue, 21 Jul 2026 09:10:00 +0000https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/welsh-constitutional-development-framework/Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/welsh-constitutional-development-framework/A strategic framework for Welsh constitutional development across the 2026–2030 Senedd term. Its thesis is that constitutional durability follows institutional capability rather than preceding it — that building governing capacity is itself constitutional work, and serves Wales under any of the futures identified by the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales.https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/wales-westminster-constitutional-development/Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/wales-westminster-constitutional-development/The Westminster-facing companion to the Framework. It examines where the present devolution settlement creates problems — institutional coherence, accountability, intergovernmental friction, constitutional asymmetry — and where reform would serve both Welsh and UK Government interests. It argues no single constitutional endpoint.https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/constructing-coordinating-machinery/Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/constructing-coordinating-machinery/A short analytical note using the Community Wealth Building (Scotland) Act 2026 as a worked example of what a devolved legislature can build within its existing competence — and of the gap between the capacity to legislate a framework and the capacity to operate one.https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/comparative-fiscal-capacity/Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/comparative-fiscal-capacity/A comparative analysis of what each live constitutional path — the current settlement, enhanced devolution and independence — would require Wales to build in fiscal capacity, and how strong the evidence is for each requirement. Working through eleven mechanisms, from territorial funding and borrowing to currency, welfare and payment systems, it argues the paths are not steps on a single ladder of more or less power but different problems of capacity — and recommends none of them. A companion evidence annex carries the full method, mechanism dossiers and source log.https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/post-election-commentary/Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/post-election-commentary/Written after the 8 May 2026 Senedd election, this note applies the completed framework to a real political moment. The framework was substantially complete before the result and its core argument didn’t depend on it; here that architecture is read against the new environment — where the result strengthens or complicates particular sections, and what it means for sequencing the recommendations.https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/welsh-income-protection-endowment/Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:10:00 +0000https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/politics/welsh-income-protection-endowment/A design for a permanent, largely self-financing Welsh capital institution that would protect workers’ incomes after redundancy or lost hours, funded by a temporary hypothecated penny on the Welsh basic rate of income tax, after which the fund’s own investment returns cover claims and the levy stops. Whether Wales presently has the constitutional authority to establish such an institution is unresolved and requires an independent legal opinion; even a favourable one would leave a second, political gateway. Offered as an institutional design study — how it would operate if those gateways were passed — and a case for testing it, not a scheme Wales can enact today.