Executive Functions
- Created by: Launston
- Created on: 11-05-14 14:38
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- Executive Functions
- Power to set policy, to take action and to implement the law
- Governments have become incredibly powerful
- Decide how public money should be spent, make foreign policy, control military power
- Carried out by a range of bodies
- Parliamentary Government - ministers must be members of Parliament
- Parliament has a key role in scrutinizing the exercise of executive functions
- Governments have become incredibly powerful
- Role of a constitution in relation to executive functions
- Enable governments by providing a framework for policymaking and implementation
- Constrain executive power - executive functions carried out in accordance with the rule of law
- Governments
- Government of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister is head
- Other members include the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretaries of State, Lord Chancellor, Junior Ministers
- Collective meetings in the cabinet on thursday mornings and No. 10
- Source of legal powers: Acts of Parliament, royal prerogative
- Collective meetings in the cabinet on thursday mornings and No. 10
- Other members include the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Secretaries of State, Lord Chancellor, Junior Ministers
- Prime Minister is head
- The Scottish Government
- The First Minister
- Source of power: The Scotland Act 1998
- The First Minister
- The Welsh Executive
- First Minister and Deputy First Minister
- The Northern Ireland Act 1998
- First Minister and Deputy First Minister
- Government of the United Kingdom
- Power to set policy, to take action and to implement the law
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