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Cabinet overview | |
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Formed | 1644 |
Type | Committee of the Privy Council |
Jurisdiction | United Kingdom |
Headquarters | Cabinet Room, 10 Downing Street |
Website | Cabinet Office webpage |
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The Cabinet of the United Kingdom is the senior decision-making body of the Government of the United Kingdom.[2] A committee of the Privy Council, it is chaired by the Prime Minister and its members include Secretaries of State and senior Ministers of State. Members of the Cabinet are appointed by the Prime Minister and are by convention chosen from members of the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
The Ministerial Code says that the business of the Cabinet (and cabinet committees) is mainly questions of major issues of policy, questions of critical importance to the public and questions on which there is an unresolved argument between departments.[3]
The work of the Cabinet is scrutinised by the Shadow Cabinet, made up of members of the Official Opposition.