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The importance of British government departments both constitutionally and politically is unquestionable. Daintith and Page emphasise the constitutional centrality of departments (1999: 6):
Our executive (while still conceived of as a unitary crown) is made up of departments, and it is normally to the heads of these departments (who are usually but not invariably ministers) not the government as a whole, that powers, and resources, are allocated by law.
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© 2001 David Marsh, David Richards and Martin J. Smith
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Marsh, D., Richards, D., Smith, M.J. (2001). Introduction. In: Changing Patterns of Governance in the United Kingdom. Transforming Government. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403900937_1
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