House of Commons - Smaller Government: What do Ministers do?

Public Administration Committee - Seventh Report
Smaller Government: What do Ministers do?

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 1 March 2011.

Contents

2 Ministerial Functions

Too much to do?

What should ministers do?

A new approach to being a Minister

Accountability

Parliamentary Scrutiny

Ministers in a 'Post-Bureaucratic Age'

Ministers and departmental structures

3 Ministerial Effectiveness

Training and guidance

4 Ministers in a Coalition

5 Ministerial Numbers and the Payroll Vote

Ministerial Numbers and Legislation

Payroll Vote

Further Reductions

6 Payroll Vote - Alternative Solutions

Using the Whips

Ministers outside the Commons

Ministers in the Lords

Ministers from outside Parliament

Parliamentary Private Secretaries

7 Conclusion

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of printed written evidence

List of additional written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and Written Evidence

Tuesday 19 October 2010

Tuesday 23 November 2010

Tuesday 7 December 2010

Written Evidence