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With regards to how UKIMA intersects with the devolution settlement the Scottish Government’s view is that UKIMA “is in effect a new, wide-ranging constraint on devolved competence, cutting across the reserved powers model, that potentially goes further than existing constraints on legislative or executive competence in the Scotland Act 1998, and is unclear and unpredictable in effects.”5Letter from the Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, External Affairs and Culture in response to the Committee's inquiry. (2023, June 26).