current first sentence is nonsense the opening sentence at present reads in the united kingdom devolved government was created following simple majority referendums in wales and scotland in september this is total nonsense i'm afraid i cannot answer for wales or northern ireland but scotland has always had devolved government since it co founded the union in the separate legal and education systems were under the control of devolved administrations and as time went on there were separate devolved government departments for just about everything else too eg agriculture transport industry and of course health the nhs has always been devolved since day what happened in is that scotland re gained a democratically devolved legislature to control the previously largely unchecked devolved government departments