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Downing Street
Website for the office and historic official residence of the Prime
Minister, which also functions as the Prime Minister's official home
page.
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Cabinet
Office
The Cabinet Office functions as the Prime Minister's executive office and chief
coordinator of government policy. It also oversees the Britsh civil service.
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Foreign
and Commonwealth Office
British government department responsible for overseas relations and foreign
affairs, through its headquarters in London and its Embassies, High Commissions,
and Consulates overseas. The Office is led by the Secretary of State for Foreign
and Commonwealth Affairs The site includes contact details of the UK's diplomatic
missions
(embassies,
high commissions and consulates) overseas. |
Northern Ireland Executive
The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland suspended the Northern Ireland Assembly
and the Executive effective midnight on October 14, 2002. The website continues
provide information about the administration in Northern Ireland. |
Northern Ireland Office
(NIO)
The NIO has responsibility for Northern Ireland’s constitutional and security
issues, in particular, law and order, political affairs, policing, criminal justice
and victims. |
Scotland
Office
The Scotland Office, headed by the Secretary
of State for Scotland, is part of the Department for Constitutional Affairs,
based in Whitehall, London. The Office’s key roles are to represent Scotland’s
interests at Westminster and act to as guardian to the Devolution Settlement. |
Scottish
Executive
The Scottish Executive was created in the wake of the 1999 devolution of legislative
and executive authority in the UK, and is responsible for most local and regional
issues in Scotland. |
Wales Office
Policy department responsible for ensuring the smooth working of the devolution
settlement in Wales, representing Welsh interests within the UK Government;
and representing the UK Government in Wales. The site is also available in Welsh. |
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