FEARS have been raised that Westminster is being sidelined over the Edinburgh Agreement and that its scrutiny of the parliamentary order paving the way for the 2014 independence referendum will be "almost negligible".
The House of Lords Constitution Committee notes in a report that using a so-called Section 30 rather than primary legislation to empower Holyrood to hold the poll means it makes it "impossible to ensure fully effective scrutiny". MPs and peers will not be able to amend the Order.
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