It has taken a while, but we have a solution to the West Lothian question, so we are told. English votes, on English law. By amending the Standing Orders of the House of Commons, English (or, where appropriate, English and Welsh) MPs will have to approve English (or English and Welsh) only provisions in Grand Committee before the Third Reading in the House of Commons. The amendments (available here) do not make for easy reading. I confess, however, I could not really concentrate on the detail after I had read the first provision:
“83J Certification of bills etc. as relating exclusively to England or England and Wales and being within devolved competence
(1) The Speaker shall, before second reading –
(a) consider every public bill presented by a Minister of the Crown or brought from the Lords and taken up by a Minister of the Crown, and
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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