Assess The Role Of The Central Government
The Central Government is made up of the Monarchy, the Prime Minister with 118 other ministers, the House of Commons with 650 members, and the House of Lords with an unfixed amount of members. It is the highest form of government in the UK with all the lower governments with their budgets and direction.
The monarchy has many roles just a few of these being giving the final approval to all laws and opening parliament each year. The monarch signs her name to every Act of Parliament before it can become the law of the land. It would be very unusual for her to refuse. No monarch has refused Parliament's wishes for over 300 years, and also MPs and Lords don't meet in Parliament every day of the year. Due to their other commitments both the House …show more content…
This allows them to declare war as well as maintain the armed forces. Another role they have is finance. They are responsible to assess and collect taxes from the public, borrow money from other states, as well as regulate and print the national currency. Most things administered by the government locally as well as nationally cost money. For example things need to be bought; roads need to be mended; parks need to be looked after; traffic lights need to work to prevent traffic jams; and teachers need to be paid. All of these things are public services and they are things that the public benefit from. Other public services include the armed forces, and the health …show more content…
They are the local council so they only cover small areas. They get their power from the central government who delegate them a certain power to make sure that the fundamental laws that the government set are put into place. They must keep a certain amount of control on what they spend their budget on, so things like bin men services and street sweepers must be kept to keep the area a clean place. A positive effect of using the devolved power system is that central government can control how much power the lower forms of government have so the local councils can’t be corrupt with the amount of power that they
The monarchy has many roles just a few of these being giving the final approval to all laws and opening parliament each year. The monarch signs her name to every Act of Parliament before it can become the law of the land. It would be very unusual for her to refuse. No monarch has refused Parliament's wishes for over 300 years, and also MPs and Lords don't meet in Parliament every day of the year. Due to their other commitments both the House …show more content…
This allows them to declare war as well as maintain the armed forces. Another role they have is finance. They are responsible to assess and collect taxes from the public, borrow money from other states, as well as regulate and print the national currency. Most things administered by the government locally as well as nationally cost money. For example things need to be bought; roads need to be mended; parks need to be looked after; traffic lights need to work to prevent traffic jams; and teachers need to be paid. All of these things are public services and they are things that the public benefit from. Other public services include the armed forces, and the health …show more content…
They are the local council so they only cover small areas. They get their power from the central government who delegate them a certain power to make sure that the fundamental laws that the government set are put into place. They must keep a certain amount of control on what they spend their budget on, so things like bin men services and street sweepers must be kept to keep the area a clean place. A positive effect of using the devolved power system is that central government can control how much power the lower forms of government have so the local councils can’t be corrupt with the amount of power that they