By James Mitchell
Governing Scotland explores the origins and improvement of the Scottish workplace in an try and comprehend Scotland's place in the united kingdom union nation within the 20th century. competing perspectives have been encapsulated in debates on how Scotland will be ruled within the early 20th century: a Whitehall view that emphasized a qualified paperwork with energy targeted on London and a Scottish view that emphasized the significance of Scottish nationwide sentiment. those perspectives have been eventually reconciled in 'administrative devolution'.
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Transferring matters ‘from one side of Whitehall to the other side of Whitehall’65 was not decentralisation but represented a case of administrative concentration of quite multifarious functions previously under the aegis of various Whitehall departments with their common feature being their application to Scotland. As this was the only characteristic shared by those matters transferred to the Scottish Office, it was not surprising that demands would be made to go further and ‘repatriate’ the Scottish administration.
There had been some confusion in the Lords when the Earl of Minto had noted at report stage that an amendment passed in committee assigned the Secretary for Scotland the position of ‘President’ of the SED but had appeared in the amended bill as ‘Vice President’. 19 Nevertheless, Rosebery supported the amendment later moved by Minto which sought to remove the word ‘Vice’ from the Act thus creating a post of ‘Secretary for Scotland and President of the Scottish Education Department’. 20 Viscount Cranbrook’s opposition was notable: What it amounted to was this – that no one but a Scotsman was to be considered fit to administer Scottish Education.
The problem had been apparent when the office was established. H. MacDonald, as Lord Advocate, had been required to send an explanation of the respective legal positions of the Home Secretary and the Scottish Secretary to Sir Richard Cross, the Home Secretary. MacDonald summarised the situation: The Commissioners under the Duke are responsible for the provision and proper working of the police force. 30 Accepting that legislation would be required to place the matter on a ‘proper footing’, Balfour argued that the ‘extreme inconvenience, and even danger, of leaving things precisely as they are in the present Settling Down to Business 35 disturbed condition of certain parts of Scotland’ required some immediate ‘mutual agreement’ between the two offices.