Chinese Delegation Rob Sykes OBE Senior Fellow University of Worcester.

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Chinese Delegation Rob Sykes OBE Senior Fellow University of Worcester

Government of UK 1. Also Devolved Administration for Wales Scotland N. Ireland 2. Members of the European Union House Of Commons House Of Lords The Cabinet The Queen – Head of State Parliament Prime Minister – David Cameron Ministers – Chancellor – G Osborne Health Education Defence Foreign Office etc

Central Government Two Houses of Parliament Raise taxes Determine policy to deploy revenue Defence of the realm Security of the State External Relations

Devolved / Local Government Scottish Parliament – devolved power e.g. Health / Education National Assembly for Wales – less power County Councils / City Councils District Councils Town or Parish Councils

County/ District Council Education Social Services Highways and Waste Disposal Planning and Economic Development Libraries Recreation and Environment Fire

Current State of the Parties / Central Government PartySeats Conservative305 Labour255 Liberal Democrat57 Democratic Unionist8 Scottish National6 Sinn Fein5 Plaid Cymru3 Social Democratic & Labour3 Alliance1 Green1 Independent2 Speaker & 3 Deputies4 Total number of seats650 Current working Government Majority*83 *305 Conservative and 57 Liberal Democrat MPs less 279 of all other parties - excludes Speaker, Deputy Speakers and Sinn Fein.

The Coalition Agreement Prime Minister – David Cameron Conservative Deputy Prime Minister – Nick Clegg Liberal Democrat All other ministerial posts shared between parties Programme for the length of the Parliament

The Spending Review – 4 Years Currently spending £43 Billion on dept interest – to be removed during spending review period Education-Schools protected Health -Protected Overseas Aid-Protected Local Gov-27% reduction Home Office & Justice-23% reduction Transport-21% reduction Defence-7.5% reduction

Other Issues ‘Big Society’ More power to front line services Education – Academies Free Schools Health – GP’s to purchase all services Personalisation ? Move towards proportional representation