Summary: book "Britain for Learners of English", James O'Driscoll



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called the cabinet
office.
It runs a busy communications network, keeping ministers in touch with each other and drawing up the agenda for cabinet meetings. It also does the same things for many cabinet committees which are appointed by the cabinet to look into various matters in more detail than the cabinet has the time or knowledge for. The people on these committees are not necessarily politicians.
The civil service
Unlike politicians, civil servants, even of the highest ranks, are unknown to the larger public. Very few people could, if you asked them, give you the names of the present Secretary to the cabinet (who runs the cabinet office) or the present head of the Home Civil Service or any other Permanent Secretary. For those who belong to it, the British civil service is a career. Its most senior positions are usually filled by people who have been working in it for twenty years or more. These people get a Distributing prohibited | Downloaded by Ngan Tien (nganctddongnai@yahoo.com.vn)
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high salary (higher than their ministers, have absolute job security (unlike their ministers) and stand a good chance of being awarded an official honour.
The local government is the smaller and local government (you understood that sentence Good for you I didn’t). They can’t make laws or collect income tax, but can collect government tax. How they meet councils. They meet in the council house of the local town hall. Local governments – England 120, Scotland 32, Wales 22, Northern Ireland 11.
How it works
Central government (Whitehall and cabinet)  county councils (shires, each shire is a counter council)  parishes (smallest unit, the church is within walking distance. Boroughs are towns that are important which has its own government (deelgemeentes). London for example has 12 inner boroughs and 12 outer boroughs. I know. It’s not important.

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