Does Scotland have the same rules as England

[ginaholic1]

I'm embarrassed to ask this but this isn't my home country so I would just like clarification. I'm living in north of England but have family living in Scotland. I'm aware Scotland have a first minster but Boris is prime minister of the UK. Does everything he says apply to Scotland also I.E when Boris announces when lockdown restrictions are loosened/ended does this automatically apply to Scotland aswell or does Nicola Sturgeon make that decision for Scotland? Please could somebody explain/clarify. Thanks

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Scotland can make its own decisions in all matters which have been devolved. Ditto Wales and NI

This includes health.

But does not include national crisis and the emergency powers. So Scotland and other home nations are doing the same as England in terms of restrictions. But they can arrange their health resources - including testing regimes - as they see fit. In practice, there are no differences ofpr very slight ones, as there are no differences in approach between Public Health England and its home nation counterparts.

Some rules are the same and some aren't. Scotland has its own parliament and devolved powers for some things but I don't know how it's decided what's included. I do know that the tax rates are slightly different in Scotland and some environmental regulations.

Also that alcohol sales have extra regulations in Scotland, there's a minimum unit price and special offers are not allowed. Plus no Sunday trading restrictions in Scottish supermarkets, like they have in the rest of the UK.

But I think the covid-19 regulations apply the same across the UK, but Wales, which also has its own parliament, called the Welsh Assembly, has made a slight difference, that exercise is formally limited to an hour a day (possibly).

As others have said, for the current situation there are very few differences (the UK wide government and Scotland/Wales devolved governments have put on a fairly united front). But a good example would be that the emergency laws that were passed in England don’t actually apply in Scotland, The Scottish Parliament had to pass its own emergency laws - as law and order is a devolved matter.

Basically in some things (like the current emergency) there’s very little difference but it’s a fairly big distinction in other things. This link gives a good overview of the types of things that are dealt with by the Scottish Parliament (devolved issues) and the types of things that are dealt with on a UK wide basis (reserved issues) www.parliament.scot/visitandlearn/12506.aspx

Not sure about Scotland, but certainly here in Wales our emergency laws are stronger than England - whereas in England it is advised to exercise once a day, in Wales it is law that we can only exercise out the house once a day.
Our health service is devolved, although in the crisis we are meant to be procuring stuff jointly rather than working against each other.

Thank you all for the clarification and for not judging my lack of knowledge on this, I'm certainly getting there though!