What steps the Government are taking to support the Office for Veterans’ Affairs.
What safety measures his Department plans to take to help ensure the 2021 local elections can take place during the covid-19 outbreak.
What steps the Government are taking to increase opportunities for small businesses to bid for Government contracts.
What steps the Government are taking to help ensure goods can continue to flow freely between the UK and the EU.
What steps the Government are taking to help increase transparency in procurement of Government contracts as part of the covid-19 response.
What plans he has to tackle voter fraud in elections.
What steps the Government are taking to strengthen the Union.
What his timescale is for publication of the Dunlop review into UK Government Union capability.
What offer his Department (a) made to and (b) received from the EU on reciprocal visa-free travel for touring musicians during negotiations on the future relationship with the EU.
What steps his Department is taking to improve democratic inclusion throughout society.
What steps he is taking to support hauliers operating between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
What recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of Government procurement policy.
What steps he is taking to improve the quality of civil service apprenticeships.
What steps he is taking to support the Government’s programme on regional economic growth after the covid-19 outbreak.
If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.
The cabinet is the group of twenty or so (and no more than 22) senior government ministers who are responsible for running the departments of state and deciding government policy.
It is chaired by the prime minister.
The cabinet is bound by collective responsibility, which means that all its members must abide by and defend the decisions it takes, despite any private doubts that they might have.
Cabinet ministers are appointed by the prime minister and chosen from MPs or peers of the governing party.
However, during periods of national emergency, or when no single party gains a large enough majority to govern alone, coalition governments have been formed with cabinets containing members from more than one political party.
War cabinets have sometimes been formed with a much smaller membership than the full cabinet.
From time to time the prime minister will reorganise the cabinet in order to bring in new members, or to move existing members around. This reorganisation is known as a cabinet re-shuffle.
The cabinet normally meets once a week in the cabinet room at Downing Street.
The Chancellor - also known as "Chancellor of the Exchequer" is responsible as a Minister for the treasury, and for the country's economy. For Example, the Chancellor set taxes and tax rates. The Chancellor is the only MP allowed to drink Alcohol in the House of Commons; s/he is permitted an alcoholic drink while delivering the budget.
Ministers make up the Government and almost all are members of the House of Lords or the House of Commons. There are three main types of Minister. Departmental Ministers are in charge of Government Departments. The Government is divided into different Departments which have responsibilities for different areas. For example the Treasury is in charge of Government spending. Departmental Ministers in the Cabinet are generally called 'Secretary of State' but some have special titles such as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Ministers of State and Junior Ministers assist the ministers in charge of the department. They normally have responsibility for a particular area within the department and are sometimes given a title that reflects this - for example Minister of Transport.
