There has been growing pressure in recent years to make St David’s Day a bank holiday in Wales.
A petition, on the UK Government website, has more than 10,000 signatures and there have been calls from many places for Wales’ patron saint to be honored with a bank holiday. After all, with the union coming under increasing pressure and all the respective nations of the UK looking to assert their unique place within it, what could be better than letting people celebrate Dewi Sant in Wales?
Well despite the calls, the UK Government have so far refused to allowed March 1 to become a bank holiday. WalesOnline has taken a deep dive into the issue to try and make some sense of the debate.
Do Scotland, Northern Ireland and England have bank holidays on their saints days?
In 2006, the Scottish Parliament passed the St. Andrew’s Day Bank Holiday (Scotland) Act 2007 which designated the day as an official bank holiday.
It has a different legal status to Bank Holidays created in the UK’s 1971 Bank and Financial Dealings Act 1971 but the UK’s Parliament website says the difference is…
