220. Individual ministerial responsibility to Parliament.
220. Individual ministerial responsibility to Parliament.
Constitutional and Administrative Law (Volume 20 (2023)) | Commentary
Each minister is responsible and must answer to Parliament for their own acts and policies and for all that is done in their department1. Theoretically the responsibility of each minister for unlawful conduct may be enforced by impeachment, in bar of which a pardon or the orders of the Crown cannot be pleaded2. However, this remedy is now probably obsolete.
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