Stormont facing mountain of European legislation, warns major think tank

Devolved UK administrations, including Stormont, have a workload that 'is now the equivalent to that of the UK government'. Photograph: EPANorthern Ireland’s civil service is now faced with “major strain” because of the volume of European Union legislation it must examine to cope with the effects of the Windsor Framework, a major British think tank has warned.

The UK government has now committed to giving the Northern Ireland Assembly advance notice of relevant EU legislative changes, which may take some of the load off the NI civil service, but Stormont “will have to conduct its own analysis of the changes”, it said.

By contrast, the Scottish civil service has grown by 66 per cent, or 10,500 officials, since Brexit, though the increase has been prompted by non-Brexit-related devolution of new social security and tax powers to Edinburgh. The number in Wales has risen by 13 per cent.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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