AQA Politics A level
Human Rights Act - Answer-1998 - incorporated ECHR into UK law
Magna Carta - Answer-1215 - established everyone (including the king) was subject to law
Bill of Rights - Answer-1689 - gave parliamentary privilege to MPs and free speech
Act of Settlement - Answer-1701...
AQA Politics A level
Human Rights Act - Answer-1998 - incorporated ECHR into UK law
Magna Carta - Answer-1215 - established everyone (including the king) was subject
to law
Bill of Rights - Answer-1689 - gave parliamentary privilege to MPs and free speech
Act of Settlement - Answer-1701 - parliament is dominant - monarchy existed on
parliament's terms
Parliament Acts - Answer-1911 and 1949 - Reduced rights and powers of house of
Lords eventually resulting in lords only being able to delay legislation for one year.
European Communities Act - Answer-1972 - Uk joined European economic
Community - ( EU )
Wales Act - Answer-2014 - created and expanded devolved powers
Scotland Act - Answer-2016 - created and expanded powers of devolved assembly
House of Lords Act - Answer-1999 - removed most hereditary peers
Data Protection Act - Answer-1998 - protects against misuse of personal details.
Freedom of Information Act - Answer-2000 - required public bodies to publish and
make requested non sensitive information public
General Data Protection Regulation - Answer-2018 - EU on privacy of data and
protection of data for all individuals in the EU
European Withdrawal Act - Answer-2018 - repealing the European Communities Act
1972 and parliamentary approval for BREXIT negotiations between government and
EU to take place
Fixed - Term Parliament Act - Answer-2011 - parliament needed a vote of 2/3
majority to call another (snap) general election.
2017 ( Theresa May undermines Fixed Term Parliament Act) - Answer-Calls a snap
election
Health Select Committee recommends a number of measures to reduce child
obesity - in 1 month the government acted - Answer-May 2018
2016 report by work and pensions committee - Answer-caused collapse of BHS and
company owners were reported to the pensions regulator
, example of cabinet reshuffle - Answer-April 2019 - sacking of gavin Williamson led to
penny mordaunt to become defence secretary after a reshuffle.
reduction of cabinet committees - Answer-2017 - to 5 cabinet committees with 4
chaired by PM
manifesto pledge confidence and supply deal - Answer-2017 election - Theresa May
struck a deal with DUP promising additional funding for northern Ireland in return for
confidence votes
2013 avoid resignation for IMR - Answer-Ian Duncan Smith blamed civil servants for
IT failings following a bad national Audit office report on the introduction of universal
credit
Priti Patel - Breaking ministerial Code - Answer-2017 - sacked as international
development secretary - as she held secret meetings with Israeli ministers while on
holiday in Israel and did not inform the PM
collective cabinet responsibility suspended e.g - Answer-2016- Cameron did before
EU referendum as there was a large divide in cabinet over the matter
public breach of CCR e.g - Answer-Ken Clarke and Theresa May breached this in
2010 about the future of the HRA
resignation over IMR - Answer-1954 - Dugdale - Agriculture Minister - resigned over
flaws by civil servants purchasing farmland for a military airfield. Dugdale assumed
IMR even though he had nothing to do with the issue and resigned
minister resignation over CCR - Answer-2016 - Ian Duncan Smith - Work and
Pensions Secretary - resigned as he could not support policy to cut disability
benefits.
minister resignation over ill health - Answer-January 2018 - James Brokenshire
resigned due to cancer treatment
Minister resigns over personal scandal - Answer-2017 - Michael Fallon as defense
secretary - sexual misconduct
Resignations since Theresa May 2017 snap election - Answer-50 ministerial
resignations - 33 over BREXIT
Tax policy Under Thatcher - Answer-1990 Poll tax - decreased support for thatcher
Margeret Thatcher Resignation - Answer-Nov 1990 - failed to secure enough votes
against Michael Hesseltine
Invasion of Iraq - Answer-2003 - Bush told Blair that Saddam Hussein had weapons
of Mass Destruction - British and US troops went to fight, but there was a civil war
after and troops had to remain in iraq
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