<P> England is the only country of the United Kingdom to not have a devolved Parliament or Assembly and English affairs are decided by the Westminster Parliament . Devolution for England was proposed in 1912 by the Member of Parliament for Dundee, Winston Churchill, as part of the debate on Home Rule for Ireland . In a speech in Dundee on 12 September, Churchill proposed that the government of England should be divided up among regional parliaments, with power devolved to areas such as Lancashire, Yorkshire, the Midlands and London as part of a federal system of government . </P> <P> The division of England into provinces or regions was explored by several post-Second World War royal commissions . The Redcliffe - Maud Report of 1969 proposed devolving power from central government to eight provinces in England . In 1973 the Royal Commission on the Constitution (United Kingdom) proposed the creation of eight English appointed regional assemblies with an advisory role; although the report stopped short of recommending legislative devolution to England, a minority of signatories wrote a memorandum of dissent which put forward proposals for devolving power to elected assemblies for Scotland, Wales and five Regional Assemblies in England . </P> <P> In April 1994 the Government of John Major created a set of ten Government Office Regions for England to coordinate central government departments at a provincial level . English Regional Development Agencies were set up in 1998 under the Government of Tony Blair to foster economic growth around England . These Agencies were supported by a set of eight newly created Regional Assemblies, or Chambers . These bodies were not directly elected but members were appointed by local government and local interest groups . </P> <P> English Regional Assemblies were abolished between 2008 and 2010, but proposals to replace them were put forward . Following devolution of power to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in 1998, the government proposed similar decentralisation of power across England . Following a referendum in 1998, a directly elected administrative body was created for Greater London, the Greater London Authority . Proposals to devolve political power to fully elected bodies English Regional Assemblies was put to public vote in the Northern England devolution referendums, 2004 . Originally three referendums were planned, but following a decisive rejection of the plans by voters in North East England, further referendums were abandoned . Although moves towards English regional devolution were called off, the Regions of England continue to be used in certain governmental administrative functions . </P>

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