UK Government - PM and the Executive

Question 1

An executive dominated by one individual, used to describe a dominant PM

Answer 1

Presidential government

Question 2

Created the No.10 policy unit in 1974

Answer 2

Harold Wilson

Question 3

Factors that influence cabinet selection

Answer 3

Establishing authority. Ability.Rewarding loyalty. Balance of party factions. Diversity

Question 4

An MP or member of the Lords appointed to a government position

Answer 4

Minister

Question 5

The PM and senior ministers

Answer 5

Cabinet

Question 6

Powers belonging to the monarch but exercised by PM or Cabinet

Answer 6

Royal prerogative

Question 7

The structure of the Executive?

Answer 7

PM
Cabinet
Government Departments
Executive Agencies

Question 8

What is the King’s Speech?

Answer 8

A yearly government programme of proposed legislation. Read by the monarch but written by the government.

Question 9

The annual statement of government plans of spending and taxation

Answer 9

The budget

Question 10

What is the ‘doctor’s mandate’?

Answer 10

The governments ability to pass emergency legislation to deal with unforeseen events

Question 11

Law made without passing a new act of parliament

Answer 11

Secondary legislation

Question 12

Enables a government to amend or repeal existing legislation without a new bill

Answer 12

Statutory instruments

Question 13

Statutory instruments are criticised because?

Answer 13

They allow the government to avoid scrutiny

Question 14

Prerogative powers include the ability to

Answer 14

Appoint ministers
Award honours
Sign treaties
Declare war

Question 15

Convention by which ministers are responsible for their personal conduct and their departments

Answer 15

Individual responsibility

Question 16

Convention by which ministers must support cabinet decisions or resign

Answer 16

Collective responsibility

Question 17

PM between 1990-1997

Answer 17

John Major

Question 18

PM between 1997-2007

Answer 18

Tony Blair

Question 19

A person employed in the public sector by a government department

Answer 19

Civil Servant

Question 20

Official name for the Poll Tax

Answer 20

Community Charge

Question 21

Labour leader from 1983-1992

Answer 21

Neil Kinnock

Question 22

Challenged Margaret Thatcher for the Conservative party leadership in 1990

Answer 22

Michael Heseltine

Question 23

Major replaced Thatcher in this month and year

Answer 23

November 1990

Question 24

The overall Conservative majority in the 1992 election

Answer 24

21

Question 25

The newspaper that claimed to have won the 1992 election

Answer 25

The Sun

Question 26

A middle ground alternative route between social democracy and neo liberalism

Answer 26

The Third Way

Question 27

The part of the Labour constitution which advocated public ownership

Answer 27

Clause 4

Question 28

Labour Leader from 1992-1994

Answer 28

John Smith

Question 29

Chancellor from 1997-2007

Answer 29

Gordon Brown

Question 30

Resigned from the Labour government in protest over the Iraq War

Answer 30

Robin Cook