David Cameron is to bring his Cabinet north of the border later this year for a special meeting in Scotland.

The Prime Minister announced the move as he visited one of the main sites for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

He said bringing all his Cabinet team to Scotland would allow UK ministers to "take stock" of preparations for the sporting event next summer.

The UK Government is working closely with the Commonwealth Games organising committee, the Scottish Government, Glasgow City Council and others in the run-up to the event.

This includes teaming up with Police Scotland on national security issues, and also sharing lessons learned from the London 2012 Olympics to help make next year's Commonwealth Games a success.

Mr Cameron said: "Later this year I'm going to be bringing the whole of the United Kingdom Government Cabinet to hold a Cabinet meeting in Scotland.

"I think that would be a good moment for the Cabinet as a whole to take of stock of where we are with the Games and anything else we can do to help the Scottish Government and the authorities around the Commonwealth Games to deliver a real success."

Speaking during a visit to the Emirates Arena, Mr Cameron said: "I want to make sure both governments, the Scottish Government and the United Kingdom Government, are doing everything they can to deliver a safe, successful and popular Commonwealth Games.

"With less than a year to go things are looking up."

The UK Government will also team up with the Scottish Government to host a special conference designed to maximise investment from the Commonwealth Games.

"One of the great opportunities of a games like the Commonwealth Games, as was the case with the Olympic Games, is to build legacy," the Prime Minister said.

"Legacy in terms of sport, legacy in terms of participation, but crucially legacy in terms of inward investment, businesses investing in Scotland and indeed the rest of the United Kingdom, because the Commonwealth Games is a great showcase, a great advertising opportunity, a great window on the success that modern Scotland and the Scottish economy is.

"I'll be helping to host with the Scottish Government an inward investment conference, probably here in Glasgow, where we will be getting lots of international businesses and other businesses to come and see the Games, see Scotland and come and invest.

"With the Olympic Games we did achieve billions and billions of pounds of inward investment because we used it as a window on to the United Kingdom. This is going to be a great window on to Scotland."

Next year will also see Scots vote on the country's future in the independence referendum, and Mr Cameron said that issue must be settled before any further devolution of powers to Holyrood could be considered.

He said: "What we have to do is to get a clear and decisive answer to the question the SNP have always wanted to put - do you want to break up the United Kingdom or do you want to stay in the United Kingdom?

"But I'm absolutely clear that if people choose to stay in the United Kingdom, as I hope Scotland will, that's not the end of the matter. Of course there are always opportunities to get the balance of powers right within the United Kingdom."

He said he believed those who supported the union were "winning the argument for keeping the United Kingdom together" but added any further transfer of powers "would be a discussion that should involve all political parties and everyone will have to bring forward their ideas".

But he stressed: "There is a straight choice that needs to be made next year, do you want to stay in the United Kingdom with opportunities for further devolution or do you want to end those opportunities, leave altogether and break up one of the most successful unions there has been anywhere in the world at any time in history?"