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Recommendation 11
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The Committee also notes the difficulties inherent in UK Ministers also being Ministers for England...
Recommendation
The Committee also notes the difficulties inherent in UK Ministers also being Ministers for England when discharging their duties. It is entirely conceivable that situations may arise where the interests of England and of the UK will be divergent, and it is not clear to us in such a situation how a Minister would manage this conflict of interests. This situation is not acceptable and places an undue conflict and burden on Ministers in such a situation. The Government should set out its policy for how a Minister should manage a conflict of interests between their role as a UK Minister and a Minister for England. This should be included in the updated version of the Cabinet Manual and supplied in draft to us in response to this report.
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