2.3.2 The concept of ministerial responsibility

• Match the type of ministerial responsibility with its definition:

  Individual ministerial responsibility ↔️ Ministers are accountable for their own actions and the actions of their department

  Collective ministerial responsibility ↔️ Ministers must publicly support government policies
• Collective Ministerial Responsibility ensures government stability by requiring all ministers to publicly agree on policies.


  True
• The Prime Minister maintains Collective Ministerial Responsibility by ensuring cabinet unity
• What does ministerial responsibility mean?

  Accountability to Parliament
• What does collective ministerial responsibility ensure?

  Government unity
• What is the primary goal of collective ministerial responsibility?

  Maintaining government unity
• Ministerial responsibility ensures transparency and accountability
• Order the exceptions to ministerial responsibility:

  1️⃣ Policy mistakes

  2️⃣ Civil service errors

  3️⃣ Acts of subordinates
• Breaches in collective ministerial responsibility can compromise cabinet unity.


  True
• Ministerial responsibility ensures transparency and accountability within the UK government
• What is an example of a corrective measure taken under Individual Ministerial Responsibility?

  Resignation
• What role does the Prime Minister play in maintaining Individual Ministerial Responsibility?

  Addresses misconduct
• Under Collective Ministerial Responsibility, ministers must publicly support government policies even if they disagree in private
• Individual ministerial responsibility covers a minister's own actions and their department's operations
• Order the key aspects of individual ministerial responsibility:

  1️⃣ Scope of Responsibility

  2️⃣ Accountability to Parliament

  3️⃣ Corrective Measures
• The Prime Minister plays a crucial role in upholding ministerial responsibility.


  True
• The Prime Minister is responsible for ensuring both individual and collective ministerial responsibility.

  True
• Breaches in individual ministerial responsibility may result in an apology or resignation
• Individual Ministerial Responsibility requires ministers to answer questions and provide information to Parliament
• Discussions within cabinet under Collective Ministerial Responsibility are strictly confidential
• Arrange the following actions in the order they occur under Ministerial Responsibility:

  1️⃣ Policy failure or misconduct

  2️⃣ Ministerial accountability

  3️⃣ Prime Minister's intervention

  4️⃣ Resignation or corrective measures
• Ministerial responsibility includes both individual and collective accountability.


  True
• Individual ministerial responsibility ensures transparency and accountability in government.


  True
• Discussions within the cabinet are confidential to allow frank debate without public scrutiny
• What corrective measures can Parliament take under individual ministerial responsibility?

  Resignations
• When is a minister not directly responsible for policy mistakes?

  If they acted in good faith
• Match the consequences with the type of responsibility:

  Individual Responsibility ↔️ Parliamentary censure

  Collective Responsibility ↔️ Government credibility suffers