AQA GCSE Citizenship Studies · 8100
Paper 1
The convention that government ministers must publicly support agreed government decisions or resign.
Revise: Institutions of the British ConstitutionCollective responsibility means ministers must publicly support agreed government decisions. A minister who cannot do so is normally expected to resign. This allows Parliament and the public to hold the government responsible for a shared policy rather than receiving contradictory positions from different ministers.
- Revise: Prime Minister and Cabinet
The principle that government ministers must publicly support agreed government decisions, even if they disagreed privately, or are expected to resign.