A second election followed in October of the same year. Many opinion pollsters and observers believe that the general election will result in a hung parliament.
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However, typically they cover local service delivery and management issues including: education; environment; leisure and recreation; local taxation; and planning. Arms Length Bodies are organisations which deliver public services, manage public services, provide advice to government and develop regulation.
They are linked to specific departments of the UK Government. Please see the full list of Arms Length Bodies , organised by the responsible department. As of , there are 37 executive agencies. Executive agencies they are designated units of a central government department.
For further details on how the executive agencies work, please see Executive Agencies: A Guide for Departments. These organisations operate quasi-independently from the government departments. They have more independence than executive agencies and non-ministerial departments. There are four types of NDPB: executive, advisory, tribunal and independent monitoring boards. Executive NDPBs often focus on delivering a particular public service. They are often directed by a Board rather than directly by a Minister.
They provide advice to Ministers and often have a small secretariat to support them. Legislative power is the power to make new laws or remove old ones. The Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly, and the Northern Irish Assembly also have legislative powers; however, they do not have as much authority as Parliament.
Executive power — the power to implement and enforce laws — is controlled by the British government, which works on behalf of the Queen, as well as the devolved governments of Scotland and Wales and the Northern Ireland Executive.
Judiciary power, which is the power to prosecute those who break the law, is kept independent of the legislature and the executive. People vote in elections for Members of Parliament MPs to represent them.
The party that gets the most seats in Parliament forms the Government. If, in the next election, Labour wins more seats, we will have a Labour Government. Members of the UK Parliament are elected in General Elections , which typically take place every five years.
To vote in a General Election you must be:. The UK voting system operates on a majority vote system. The political party that wins the most votes wins the election. For a political party in the UK to form a government they need an overall majority.
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