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Who gets to introduce legislation? Is it the responsibility of the respective minister/secretary?

In that case one might expect the five lib dems in the cabinet to push the parts of the coalition agreement falling under their brief. Supposedly Clegg does have a large brief including overseeing electoral reform. Then there's banking reform (Cable) and energy and environment (Huhne). Question: what does the "Chief Secretary to the Treasury" do and how does that relate with the Chancellor's portfolio? If the Chancellor does the budget, what does Laws get to do from his Treasury position? Finally, what can be expected of Danny Alexander as Scottish Secretary?

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed May 12th, 2010 at 05:53:49 PM EST
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Apparently Laws' job is primarily about controlling Departmental budgets which means he will become known as the "Minister for cuts" whilst Osborne at least gets credit for some tax cuts and any economic growth...

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Wed May 12th, 2010 at 06:48:53 PM EST
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