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Introduction

Three Parts

What is Parliament for?

How Does Parliament Work?

Parliament and Government

The Voice of the Nation

Confidence Motions

How Does the Government Organise its Majority -The Whips Overview

Carrots and Sticks used by the Whips

Managing your majority through Parliamentary Private Secretaries

Managing your majority by working with Party Groups

Rebellions

Free Votes in the House of Commons

Parliamentary Reform

Types of MPs – The Constituency Activist

Types of MPs – The Aspiring Minister

Types of MPs- The House of Commons Expert

Types of MPs – The Ideologist

Types of MPs- The Policy Entrepreneur

Controlling the Executive – Introduction

Controlling the Executive by Legislation

Controlling the Executive with Finance

Controlling the Executive through Appointments

Controlling the Executive through Questions

Controlling the Executive through Ministerial Statements

Controlling the Executive with Opposition Debates

Controlling the Executive through Select Committees

What do Backbench MPs do?

Overview of MP Expenses and Interests

Sleaze in British Politics – The 1990s

MPs Expenses Scandal 2009

Parliament- An Exclusive Club

University 18 Yrs + | Parliament

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Managing your majority through Parliamentary Private Secretaries (PPS)

The Prime Minister and each Minister has an MP who acts as a PPS.
They are attached to a Government Department but have no power to direct civil servants. Their role is to know what the Minister and Department is planning to do and sound this out with backbench MPs and report back their views and how backbenchers think the Minister is performing in the Commons. It is often the first position for rising MPs.