UPS Unit 6 Learning Aim A &B

What are the role and responsibilities of the executive?

• Setting the strategic direction of the country

• Control the Home Office

• Controlling the budget

What are the roles of the monarch?

• Making new laws and legislations within the government

• Advising Prime Ministers and Government officials

• Ensure public services do their job

Which three are the roles of the House of Lords?

• Protect the Lords

• Provide a forum of independent expertise

• Make laws

• Laws policies

• Check & challenge the actions of the government

What is the role of the Scottish Parliament?

• Agreeing taxes with other countries

• Runs the country with Westminster to consider

• Implements laws and policies that affect Scotland

How do the protective services obtain funding?

• National Lottery

• Taxation

• EU Funding

What could be a public response to a change of policy made by the government that wasn't accepted?

• Celebrations

• Demonstrations

• Demographic changes

What are the public services NOT allowed to do?

• Strike

• Vote

• Quit

What is the name where the a sovereign is the head of state?

• Republic

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Communism

What are the responsibilities of the monarch?

• Voice political opinions

• Political neutrality

• Choose members of government

What are the three institutions of state?

• Family, religion & education

• Government, monarch & judiciary

• Executive, legislature & judiciary