Subsidy Control
This Act reserves to the UK Parliament the exclusive ability to legislate for a UK subsidy control regime once the UK ceases to follow EU State aid rules at the end of the Transition Period.
	This legislation means the UK Parliament can legislate for a UK wide regime to regulate the effects of distortive or harmful subsidies, whether that is in relation to international trade or the UK internal market. Any future regime will be subject to Article 10 of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in the Withdrawal Agreement whilst it applies to the UK.
	The areas that have been and will be exclusively reserved to the UK Parliament in respect of each of the devolved nations are set out in three main pieces of devolution legislation. These are the Scotland Act 1998 (see Schedule 5 ‘Reserved Matters’), the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (see Schedule 2 ‘Excepted matters’) and the Government of Wales Act 2006 (see Schedule 7A ‘Reserved Matters’).