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By Douglas Fraser
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Whitehall is to bypass the devolved administrations and replace European structural funds with a centrally-controlled fund.
In Scotland, that means more than £100m is set to be spent by the UK government on projects normally devolved to the Scottish Parliament.
The Shared Prosperity Fund replaces European Commission development and social fund grants.
The Scottish government has set out its own plans for replacing EU funds.
Stephen Barclay, the UK Treasury Secretary, has removed some of the uncertainty about the way the Shared Prosperity Fund will operate.
In the past seven years, £780m has come through the Scottish government by that route.
David Phinnemore
address the latest debate surrounding the implementation of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland. They suggest that, contrary to some claims being made, unilateral triggering of Article 16 by the UK would not offer an easy route for remedying the new realities in the movement of goods across the Irish Sea.
Transition is over and the Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol is now in operation. With Northern Ireland effectively remaining inside the customs territory of the European Union and its internal market for goods and the rest of the UK now outside, there are new and additional formalities, checks and controls for the movement of goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.
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