Guiding Principles - The electorate will have ultimate power, via democratic means, to control, govern and approve Parliament, Government and Public Servant actions
- Only elected Members of Parliament (Electorate Representative) may hold executive or ministerial roles within Government
- All Electorate Representatives to be domiciled and resident within the UK
- No Electorate Representative may have appointments to more that one Vertical Responsibility, no more than five Horizontal or Geographical Group responsibilities
- No external appointments are to be held by ministers
- The absolute separation of Government (both local and central) and Religion, apart from the Monarchy being Head of the Church of England
- A standard, published & exposed accounting practice used within all government departments, including Public Bodies
- The House of Lords to be an elected chamber
Departmental RestructureA major restructure of Government will reduce the number of departments. The
current Cabinet consists of the following departments & offices and will
change, moving responsibility to Vertical Responsibility Departments as
indicated.
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Existing Department
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Will become Vertical Responsibility
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Attorney General
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Justice & Democracy
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Business, Innovation & Skills
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Business, Education & Corporate Governance
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Cabinet Office
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Justice & Democracy
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Children, Schools & Families
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Benefits & Social Cohesion
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Communities & Local Government
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Local & Devolved Government
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Culture, Media & Sports
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Culture, Media & Sports
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Defence
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Defence
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Energy & Climate Change
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Transport, Environment & Infrastructure
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Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
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Transport, Environment & Infrastructure
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Equalities Office
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Benefits & Social Cohesion
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Foreign & Commonwealth Office
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Foreign Affairs
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Health
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Health & Social Care
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Home Office
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Home & Internal Affairs
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International Development
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Foreign Affairs
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Justice
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Justice & Democracy
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Northern Ireland Office
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Local & Devolved Government
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Office of Advocate General for Scotland
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Justice & Democracy
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Office of Leader of the House of Commons
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Justice & Democracy
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Office of Leader of the House of Lords
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Justice & Democracy
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Scotland Office
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Local & Devolved Government
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Transport
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Transport, Environment & Infrastructure
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Treasury
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Treasury & Systems
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Wales Office
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Local & Devolved Government
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Work & Pensions
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Benefits & Social Cohesion
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The major changes to these changes include:
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Vertical Responsibility Department
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Changes
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Benefits & Social Cohesion
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Merge the Government Equalities Office, the
Department of Work & Pensions and the Children and Family sections of the
current Department for Children, Schools & Families.
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Business, Education & Corporate Governance
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Merges the Department of Business, Innovation
& Skills and the Schools section of the current Department for Children,
Schools & Families
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Culture, Media & Sport
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Continues as now
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Defence
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Border Control Agency becomes part of Defence
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Foreign Affairs
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Merges the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and
International Development
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Health & Social Care
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Social Services becomes part of Health &
Social Care
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Home & Internal Affairs
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The Police Authorities will split into The Public
Policing Service and Central Investigation Service
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Justice & Democracy
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Merges the Attorney General, Cabinet Office, Justice,
Advocate General for Scotland, Leader of House of Commons, Leader of House of
Lords
Crown Prosecution Service
Responsible for Parliament for Horizontal
Responsibility purposes
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Local & Devolved Government
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Merges Department for Communities & Local Government,
and the offices for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales
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Transport, Environment & Infrastructure
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Merges Departments of Energy & Climate
Change, Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Transport
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Treasury & Systems |
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Horizontal Responsibility Groups (HRG)New Horizontal Responsibility Groups (HRG) will be created that have responsibility across all government departments. These groups will provide consistency and ensure a "teeth and braces" approach to parliament and the Government functions and processes.
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Horizontal Responsibility Group
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Description
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Administrative Support
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Providing standard office and accounting
functions across departments
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Democratic Reform
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Review of democracy and electorate
involvement. Includes analysis of
local government and restructuring of Vertical Responsibility Departments to
align with reforms
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Electorate Scrutiny & Review
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Provides access and ability for the Electorate to
scrutinise Government and Parliamentary business and decisions
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Government Communications & Transparency
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Looks to review and where practical standardise
communications from government to the electorate and other interested parties
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Human Resources
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Management of Staff, Contractors and other Human
Resources including MP costs & staffing
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Legal Services
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Solicitor and legal services, including advice to
Ministers
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Local Data Management
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Standardisation and improvements to expose local
data sets for comparison
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Parliamentary Estates Management
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Management of all government and parliamentary
properties and fixed assets including MP offices
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Public Body Co Ordination
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Co ordination and oversight of all Publicly
Funded Bodies
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Service Delivery & Project Management
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Continual review and co-ordination of systems and
processes to ensure “joined-up” government, Project Management and effective
and efficient service delivery
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Targeted Review Team
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Cross governmental analysis and review of
targeted problem areas, e.g. Alcohol Abuse, Commuter Travel etc
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Technology & Digital Assets
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Review and co-ordination of government technology and Intellectual Property
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The funding for Horizontal Responsibility Groups will be allocated (as a
percentage of total cost) across one or more Vertical Responsibility
Departments, which will be openly disclosed. As part of a change in
senior management, all Public Bodies (including all publicly funded groups,
quangos, NDPB’s etc) will be responsible to one of the above Vertical
Responsibility Departments and to one or more of the new Horizontal Responsibility Groups. Funding for these Public Bodies to be allocated to the Vertical
and Horizontal Responsibility groups. The standard accounting practice will
be used within all governmental departments, including Public Bodies. |
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