Quasi non-governmental organisations for example NICE (national insititute for clinical excellence) and British Council
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How And Why Ministers Are Appointed to Cabinet?
Close Ally To PM, Reward for Past Support, Representation of section of party, mirror representation and balance out a colalition
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What Are The 7 Functions of PM in UK government?
Chairing cabinet, National leadership, Political leadership, Appoints government, Representing UK in international affairs, managing relations with parliament and the executive
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What Are Formal Powers?
Formal Powers are constitutional powers of the PM, these are fixed powers given by the monarch and do not change
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Give 4 Examples of Formal Powers
Powers of patronage, Powers to command and direct the army, Powers to speak on behalf of the nation to the public and media, Powers to conduct foreign policy negotiations and sign treaties
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What are the 4 sources of the PMs power?
Prerogative powers, elective authority, parliamentary authority, being leader of the governing party
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What is 'Individual Ministerial Responsibility'
the doctrine that each government minister is personally responsible for all policies and decisions made by his/her department and will be required to resign if an important error was made
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Give 3 Examples of 'individual ministerial responsibility'
2011 Liam Fox (accused of using unauthorised private adviser),2010 David Laws (resigned over stealing money from parliament), 2012 Chris Huhne (charged with crime relating to misleading police over a driving offence)
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What is 'Elective Authority' ?
PM can claim to have popular elective authority as the winner of the leading party
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What is 'Parliamentary Authority' ?
As winner of the governing party they lead parliament, winning party in the HOC controls parliament so the PM leads parliament
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What is 'Collective Cabinet Responsibility'
All ministers must publicly support all decisions made within cabinet
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How And Why Ministers Are Appointed to Cabinet?
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Close Ally To PM, Reward for Past Support, Representation of section of party, mirror representation and balance out a colalition
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