PM&Exec anything else

Question 1

What is the actual role of exec

Answer 1

• Proposing legislation
• Proposing a bidget
• Running the country (day to day decisions)

Question 2

Role of minister

Answer 2

• Senior ministers do up final decisions, -
• Role is to formulate policy
• Junior ministers support the minister in their department, might stand in for the minister in parliament
• Junior ministers in charge of specific area in department

Question 3

Role of cabinet

Answer 3

Making formal decisions
coordinating gov't policy
Managing parlaimentary business
 Providing a forum
Managing emerfancies

Question 4

Cabinet committees

Answer 4

groups of cabinet minister designed to allow discissions & decisions
PM has power to set up cavinet committee and is responsible for appointing members
25 main cabinet committees -
Cabinet usually obliged to accept report/decisions made by committee report

Question 5

Example of cabiner committees

Answer 5

NSC or Home Affairs committee

Question 6

Cabinet is important

Answer 6

• Some circumstances, cabinet makes key decisions (whether to hold election in 2017(
• Some cabinet minister are well important- treasury
• No PM can survive without Cabinet support
• Cabinet only effetive place where disptues between ministers can be dealt with out of public eye

Question 7

Cabinet isn’t important

Answer 7

• PM has huge powers of patronage
• PM relying more on special advisers
• Collective responsibility gives PM power to silence dissenters in cavinet
• Rubber stamp
• PM decides number and nature of Cabinet committees

Question 8

Collective ministerial responsibility

Answer 8

Convention requires that they all stick to an agreed policy and not t question it in public

Question 9

What ensures SC independence

Answer 9

• Safeguarding terms of employment, pay and appointment
• Able to through judical review - gov’t acting ultra vires
• Seperation from HoL to form SC

Question 10

• Safeguarding terms of employment, pay and appointment

Answer 10

o Can’t be removed from office unless they break law (security of tenure), immune from legal action arising from comments they make on cases in court; salaries paid automatically from Consolidated fund, an independent budge, and appointed by Judicial Appointments Commission transparent and free from political intervention

Question 11

• Separation from House of Lords to form Supreme Court

Answer 11

o It also assured this by removing judicial functions of the Lords Chancellor (who had previously been member of Cabinet, Speaker of HoL, with responsibility to appoint judges). Now, JAC appoints to the SC.