Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance – in the Senedd at 2:07 pm on 6 December 2017.
Mark Drakeford
Labour
2:07,
6 December 2017
Well, Llywydd, we do have a system in place already and, on the whole, I think that the system does work. When things like this happen. Councils can come to the Government and we do have a meeting within the diary for that to take place. We do keep money in these reserves in order to be able to assist when things like this do take place. As I said, as a Government we are eager to see if there are things that we can do to help in the context of Ynys Môn at present. We can do so under the current situation and arrangements that we have, and we’re eager to do so.
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.
