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While the Government has yet to table final proposals, one idea is that every person entering Great Britain would have to give one week's notice and complete a questionnaire which contained some 96 questions, before arrival.

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More than 500 schools in England will focus on the subject of Britishness as part of a government initiative. The Who Do We Think We Are? week will see pupils look at identity, history, faith and community.

Alex Salmond is set to raise the issue of "Scotland's oil" and high fuel prices when he travels to London on Wednesday for a meeting with ministers of the devolved administrations and the UK Government.

In Scotland and Wales it is recognised that their devolution is a process which is not yet complete. All parties there, including the Conservative Party, are promising more powers and a general expansion of status and remit for their National Parliaments and governments. So the outstanding question, to my way of thinking, is what is going to happen in England!

f devolution proceeds, the government will abolish the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) and subsume it into the Ministry of Justice, which is headed by Jack Straw.