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Government Ministerial Responsibility in the United Kingdom Responsibility of the Ministers of UK For the doctrine of government under the law to be observed, it is essential that government be both accountable to parliament and to the electorate, and that government be conducted in a manner sufficiently open, subject to the requirements of the national interest, to inspire public confidence Marshall and Moodie describe ministerial responsibility in the following words, Ministers are responsible for the general conduct of government, including the exercise of many powers legally vested in the Monarch; and ultimately, through parliament and parties, to the electorate'. Ministers inform and explain, apologise, take remedial action, or resign in support of the convention of ministerial responsibility. This is not an area regulated by statute, rather practice has developed according to precedent and guidance. Most recently, that guidance has become formalised in the Ministerial Code,