Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 2:05 pm on 3 May 2017.
Mark Drakeford
Labour
2:05,
3 May 2017
I thank Jenny Rathbone for that supplementary question. It’s always seemed to me, Dirprwy Lywydd, that Cardiff is very fortunate as a city in having a bus interchange and its main railway station so very closely co-located and to allow exactly the sort of transport nexus to be created to which she referred. The Cardiff capital city deal has, as an integral part of it, a regional transport authority to make sure that the way in which transport runs across the whole of the Cardiff capital region can be co-ordinated and properly put together. I have every confidence that the new bus station in Cardiff is properly planned, properly financed and will provide an excellent service, both to the citizens of Cardiff and to those people from the rest of Wales who come to our capital city.
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.
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