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The Cabinet Secretary is responsible for clearing ministers' financial matters. [9] The Code is currently administered by the Propriety and Ethics group within the Cabinet Office. [10] The Code is periodically updated. The 2015 update removed the explicit requirement that ministers comply with international law and treaty obligations. [11]
The Committee on Standards in Public Life is an independent advisory non-departmental public body, [1] with a secretariat and budget provided by the Cabinet Office.The committee advises and makes recommendations to the prime minister on ethical standards in public life. [2]
Darren Christopher Tierney (born 29 January 1975) [1] is a British civil servant, serving since 2023 in the Cabinet Office as the director-general for propriety and constitution group. [2] From 2021–2023, he was director-general for propriety and ethics.
Political ethics (also known as political morality or public ethics) is the practice of making moral judgments about political action and political agents. [1] It covers two areas: the ethics of process (or the ethics of office), which covers public officials and their methods, [2] [3] and the ethics of policy (or ethics and public policy), which concerns judgments surrounding policies and laws.
The Cabinet Manual is a government document in the United Kingdom which sets out the main laws, rules and conventions affecting the conduct and operation of the Government of the United Kingdom. It was written by the Civil Service , led by Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell , and was first published by the Cabinet Office on 14 December 2010.
The Cabinet Office is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for supporting the prime minister and Cabinet . [ 3 ] It is composed of various units that support Cabinet committees and coordinate the delivery of government objectives via other departments.
A cabinet secretary is usually a senior official (typically a civil servant) who provides services and advice to a cabinet of ministers as part of the Cabinet Office. In many countries, the position can have considerably wider functions and powers, including general responsibility for the entire civil service .
For example, if a firm makes redundant half of the workers, an employee may feel a sense of injustice with a resulting change in attitude and a drop in productivity. Justice or fairness refers to the idea that an action or decision is morally right, which may be defined according to ethics, religion, fairness, equity, or law.