"[1] The Commission held its first full meeting at the Scottish Parliament on 28 April 2008[4] and met at roughly monthly intervals[5] during its period of work.
This is chaired by Professor Anton Muscatelli, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Glasgow, and includes academics from Scotland, the rest of the UK and overseas.
The Commission's first report, released in December 2008[11] declared that devolution had been a success, while making the case for Scotland's continued place within the United Kingdom.
On funding, it endorsed the view of the independent expert group that full fiscal autonomy is incompatible with the continuation of the United Kingdom.
[14] The United Kingdom Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government which was elected in 2010 pledged to implement the findings of the Calman Commission[15] and subsequently used them as the basis for the Scotland Act 2012.