Parliament of Scotland without interruption. Robert Burns' claim that the Union of England and Scotland (and hence the dissolution of the Scottish Parliament) was brought about by the Scots members being "bought and sold for English gold" was largely accurate – bribery and parliamentary division combined with wider economic imperatives, partly arising from the disaster of the Darien Scheme, enabling the Crown to incorporate a Union with England in the Acts of Union 1707 which brought into existence the Parliament of Great Britain. Forty-five Scots were added to the 513 members of the House of Commons and 16 Scots to the 190 members
Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom relating to the European Communities and the European Union Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom relating to the European Communities and the European Union This is a list of current, amended, spent and repealed Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom relating to its membership of the European Communities and the European Union from 1972 to the present. Some of the acts (particularly the European Communities Act 1972 and the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 represent some of the most important constitutional legislation currently on the statue book . This act legislated for the accession of the United Kingdom to the European Communities which later became the