Funding is of course critical but so is accountability.
Does anyone remember subsidiarity? Those of us campaigning for a Scottish Parliament in the 1990s certainly do.
We campaigned for a subsidiarity that would see services organised and governed as close to the people as possible because we feared a sucking up of locally controlled services — no matter which party won power in the first parliament — into a central monolith.
We wanted a real parliament, not a pan-Scotland local authority taking over local functions. We clearly didn’t succeed.