Executive - Ministerial Responsability

Question 1

AG v Jonathan Cape 1976

Answer 1

Injunction memoire refused

Collective Resp - No premature disclosure

Question 2

Carltona 1943

Answer 2

Northcote Trevelyan - CS acted on behalf of minister - not delegated but act of minister

Question 3

Constitutional Reform and Government Act 2010

Answer 3

CS - statutory footing

Question 4

HC Disqualification Act 1975

Answer 4

Min in Commons - 95

Question 5

Ministers & Other Salaries Act 1975

Answer 5

Salary - 109

Question 6

HC Standing Order 14

Answer 6

Opposition setting agenda

Question 7

Le Sueur

Answer 7

Support - diffuse, specific + Compliance

Question 8

Nicol

Answer 8

Government Influence

Party system, not unthinkingly toe line - ideological considerations

Question 9

Greer

Answer 9

CS

Question 10

Bogdanor

Answer 10

Collective Responsibility - ‘more appropriate to an era of collective duopoly and tribal politics than to a period of multi party politics’

Question 11

Northcote Trevelyan

Answer 11

CS

Question 12

Fulton 1960s

Answer 12

Need more efficiency + assessment - CS

Question 13

Cabinet Manual 2011

Ministerial Code 2015

Answer 13

Select Comm 2000 - constitutionalise?

Question 14

HoC S Com on Public Admin 2010-12

Answer 14

Role - within gov; answering P Qs; Public face