does scotland have members of parliament in the parliament of the united kingdom?

Question

does scotland have MPs in the parliament of the UK or does it use its own regional parliament that is governed directly by its regional first minister ?

Answer 1

Indeed they do have MPs in the UK Parliament at Westminster, as well as there being a Scottish Assembly at Holyrood.
Scottish MPs (Members of Parliament) at Westminster vote on national issues affecting the whole UK, whereas Scottish MSPs (Members of the Scottish Parliament) vote on exclusively Scottish issues.
The Westminster Parliament has existed since 1707 when Scotland and England officially unified. The Holyrood Parliament, by contrast, is a very recent invention and was a manifesto pledge by the Labour government in 1997.
There is a famous controversy about this situation called the 'West Lothian Question', so-called after the MP for West Lothian, Tam Dalyell, who once raised the point that while Scottish MPs could vote on English issues (at Westminster), English MPs could NOT vote on certain Scottish issues - for example transport policy for Scotland would be discussed at Holyrood, not Westminster, whereas transport policy for England would be discussed in Westminster.
This all comes about because while there is a Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish Assembly, there is no equivalent 'English Assembly'. Some say this is a cynical ploy by the Labour government (since Conservatives have always dominated in England), but others argue that English interests are represented in the overwhelming majority at Westminster, therefore England already has an assembly which (broadly) addresses English issues.
One proposal has been to simply bar Scottish/Welsh/Northern-Irish MPs from voting on English issues at Westminster. However, the downside to this (in my humble view) is that this would most likely lead to the breakup of the Union since there would no longer be a forum where representatives from all the countries of the UK would discuss 'UK issues'.

So in short - the answer is: 'yes, but not if some people had their way'.

Answer 2

Scotland has MPs in the British government, as do the Welsh and the Irish, not just their own governments

Answer 3

i think of probable it is going to. no rely if Wales Northern eire or Cornwall will shop on with is anyones guess. whilst Scotland is long gone the dinamic will replace. The South East of britain will efficiently have extra dominance over the different areas, so which you will perhaps see northern and western areas of britain additionally drifting away, searching for extra independence from London. I do genuinely wish for a federation of countries and areas of the British Isles.

Answer 4

Yep, ever since the Act of Union in 1707.

Answer 5

It has both. Details of their different roles can be found on the below links.

Answer 6

Yes it does, cathy jamieson