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This template, {{Cabinet table minister}}, is intended to be used in cabinet articles, and creates a list of ministers in e.g. the Reinfeldt cabinet. For this you need the templates {{Cabinet table start}}, {{Cabinet table ministry}} and {{Cabinet table end}}. It can create up to ten columns, for ten persons that held the same office.
Written guidance for British cabinet ministers began as the document Questions of Procedure for Ministers (QPM), which was a confidential document prepared by the Cabinet Office to assist ministers, and dates to at least the 1980s. [6] The earliest published form of the Code is a result of the QPM's release by the Major Government in 1992.
The reverse of ministerial responsibility is that civil servants are not supposed to take credit for the successes of their department, allowing the government to claim them. In recent years some commentators have argued the notion of ministerial responsibility has been eroded in many Commonwealth countries. As the doctrine is a constitutional ...
acting as a forum for the discussion of, and agreement on, issues which cut across the responsibilities of two or more ministers; prioritising executive and legislative proposals; discussing and agreeing upon significant or controversial matters; and; recommending a common position where necessary (e.g. in dealing with external relationships). [15]
The role of the private secretary to a secretary of state originated in the 18th century. [1] Today, a junior minister may have a three-person private office consisting of a private secretary and two assistant private secretaries; whereas a more senior minister may have a five-person private office consisting of a senior private secretary, private secretary and three assistant private secretaries.
F. List of finance ministers of Zimbabwe; Minister of Economy and Finance (Madagascar) Minister of Finance (Dominica) Minister of Finance (Paraguay)
This responsibility refers to the responsibility of ministers to accept and defend the decisions made jointly by the Parliament even if a minister does not agree with the decision. While a Minister is free to introduce an opposing viewpoint for debate in Parliament, once a decision is taken by the Parliament, all ministers are bound to abide by ...
The Manual was written as a guide for members of Cabinet, other ministers and civil servants in the execution of government business, but also serves to consolidate many of the previously unwritten constitutional conventions through which the British government operates.