Full question: If in the future, the Scottish Parliament were to be abolished and Scotland were to be governed as it was before devolution, would you be pleased, sorry or neither pleased nor sorry?

All questions relevant to this website that were asked on the same poll:

• Do you agree or disagree that large numbers of people who are eligible for benefits these days fail to claim them?
• At the Scottish Parliamentary election, did you vote mostly according to what was going on in Scotland or mostly according to what was going on in Britain as a whole?
• Position on libertarian-authoritarian scale (see notes for details)
• How should Scotland be governed? (five response categories collapsed to three)
• Do you agree or disagree that ‘The Scottish Parliament should be given more powers’?
• Has the standard of the health service in Scotland increased or fallen in the last 12 months?
• Should children go to a different kind of secondary school according to how well they do at primary school, or should all children should go to the same kind of secondary school no matter how they do at primary school?
• How should Scotland be governed? (five options)
• Has the quality of education in Scotland increased or fallen in the last 12 months?
• If the Scottish Parliament was abolished in future would you be sorry or pleased?
• Do you agree or disagree that young people today don’t have enough respect for traditional British values?
• Do you agree or disagree that people who break the law should be given stiffer sentences?
• Do you think England’s economy or Scotland’s economy benefits more from the Union?
• Do you agree or disagree that the law should always be obeyed, even if a particular law is wrong?
• Do you agree or disagree that large numbers of people these days falsely claim benefits?
• How much do you trust the Scottish Government to work in Scotland’s best interests?
• How well does the SNP look after the interests of Scottish people in general?
• What should Britain’s long-term policy on the European Union be?
• Do you agree or disagree that schools should teach children to obey authority?
• Does Scotland get more, less, or pretty much its fair share of government spending?
• How well does Scottish Labour look after the interests of Scottish people in general?
• ‘Moreno’ national identity
• How well do the Liberal Democrats in Scotland look after interests of Scottish people in general?
• How much of a difference do you think it makes which party wins in Scottish Parliament elections?
• Party political identification
• Which institution ought to have most influence over how Scotland is run?
• How much of a difference do you think it makes which party wins in UK general elections?
• Do you agree or disagree that for some crimes the death penalty is the most appropriate sentence?
• How much interest do you have in politics?
• Do you agree or disagree that ‘Now Scotland has its own parliament, it should pay for its services out of taxes collected in Scotland’?
• Do you agree or disagree that the Scottish Parliament should be elected using proportional representation?
• Does having a Scottish Parliament mean taxes in Scotland will be higher or lower?
• Are benefits for unemployed people too low and cause hardship, or too high and discourage them from finding jobs?
• Is the Scottish Parliament giving Scotland a stronger or weaker voice in the UK?
• Has the general standard of living in Scotland increased or fallen in the last 12 months?
• Do you agree or disagree that the UK should introduce proportional representation so that the number of MPs each party gets in the House of Commons matches more closely the number of votes each party gets?
• How well does the Conservative party in Scotland look after interests of Scottish people in general?
• Do you agree or disagree that Scottish MPs should not be allowed to vote on English-only laws?
• ‘Forced choice’ national identity
• How much do you trust the UK government to work in Scotland’s best long-term interests?
• Does having a Scottish Parliament mean that Scotland’s economy will become better or worse?
• Should the government increase taxes and spending, reduce taxes and spending, or keep them the same?
• How should England be governed?
• Does having a Scottish Parliament mean that the NHS in Scotland will become better or worse?
• Do you agree or disagree that censorship of films and magazines is necessary to uphold moral standards?
• Which institution do you think has most influence over how Scotland is run?
• Does the Scottish Parliament give ordinary people more or less say in how Scotland is governed?