Foreign Office minister Sir Eyre Crowe also wrote a memorandum to the British cabinet claiming that " a solemn league and covenant " would just be " a treaty, like other treaties ".

Grant's reply was a recommendation against the move, in light of the Tenure of Office Act which required Senate approval of any removal of a cabinet appointment subject to their advice and consent.

CMs perform time-divided switching and are provided in pairs ; each module ( cabinet ) belonging to Office Network and Timing Complex ( ONTC ) 0 or 1, roughly corresponding to the switch planes of other designs.

Under George W. Bush, additional units were added, such as the Office of Homeland Security ( 2001 ), which later became a cabinet department, and the Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives ( 2001 ).

In 1999, he was briefly a minister at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, before entering the cabinet later in the year as the Secretary of State for Defence, at which time he became a member of the Privy Council.

He or she is a member the cabinet and is the head of the Wales Office.

From 1970 to 1974 he served in the cabinet of Edward Heath as Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, an expanded version of the post of Foreign Secretary, which he had held earlier.

Home was appointed to the new post of Minister of State at the Scottish Office, a middle-ranking position, senior to Under-secretary but junior to James Stuart, the Secretary of State, who was a member of the cabinet.

After discussions with Lloyd and senior civil servants, Macmillan took the unprecedented step of appointing two Foreign Office cabinet ministers: Home, as Foreign Secretary, in the Lords, and Edward Heath, as Lord Privy Seal and deputy Foreign Secretary, in the Commons.

Backed by the CIA and the Programs Evaluation Office, Phoumi, then a colonel, became a cabinet minister in the right-wing government of the Kingdom of Laos in February 1959 and a general several months later.

* The Senate does not " advise and consent " to appointments to the Executive Office of the President ( with only a handful of exceptions ), as it does with cabinet appointments.

The cabinet minister currently responsible for the Office of Francophone Affairs is Madeleine Meilleur.

Chamberlain joined the cabinet as Secretary of State for India and remained at the India Office after Lloyd George succeeded Asquith as Prime Minister in late 1916, but following the failure of various British campaigns in Mesopotamia ( undertaken by the separately-administered Indian Army ), Chamberlain resigned his post in 1917, not because of any failures on his part, but rather according to his principles: he was the minister ultimately responsible, so the fault lay with him.

Wilson again established the Ministry in 1974, but later merged it into the Foreign Office once again: from 10 June 1975 to 8 October 1979 the Foreign Secretary served as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Minister for Overseas Development in the cabinet, while the Minister for Overseas Development held the rank of Minister of State within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

* Germany: Minister of State ( Staatsminister in German ) is the title given to a parliamentary state secretary ( a member of parliament serving as a political aide to a cabinet minister ) serving in the Foreign Office or the Chancellor's Office.

The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 abolished the United States Post Office Department, a part of the cabinet, and created the United States Postal Service, a corporation-like independent agency with an official monopoly on the delivery of mail in the United States.

The cabinet position of Secretary of State for Wales was retained at the head of a newly formed Wales Office.

Two cabinet ministers, namely Foreign Minister George Yeo and Minister in the Prime Minister's Office Lim Hwee Hua, were defeated.

His new cabinet included three newly appointed ministers, namely S. Iswaran, formerly Senior Minister of State for Education and for Trade and Industry, was elevated to the Cabinet as Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, and Second Minister for Home Affairs and for Trade and Industry.

After working at the Department of Employment ( 1992 – 94 ), then the Home Office ( 1994 – 95 ), he became a member of John Major's cabinet in 1995 as Secretary of State for Scotland.

Under Peel he held minor offices, and in 1845 was included in the cabinet as Secretary at War, and again held this office from 1852 to 1855, being responsible for the War Office during the Crimean War, and again in 1859.

The main wartime occupants of the station were the Emergency Railway Committee, but it was also used by Churchill and the war cabinet until the Cabinet War Rooms were ready for use.

Until the opening of the Battle of France, which began on 10 May 1940, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's war cabinet met at the War Rooms only once, in October 1939.

As head of state, Queen Elizabeth II is represented in Antigua and Barbuda by a governor general who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet.

Botswana's cabinet is headed by the President, who is also head of government.

Executive power is exercised by the President, advised by a cabinet.

There is a strong parallel here with the structure of government, which tends to separate the political cabinet from the management civil service.

Executive power is exercised by the president and his cabinet, and the President of Costa Rica is both the head of state and head of government.

In both cases, the titular head of state-monarch or president-serves the traditional role of embodying and representing the nation, while the actual governing is carried out by a cabinet composed predominantly of elected Members of Parliament.

There is a strong parallel here with the structure of government, which tends to separate the political cabinet from the management civil service.

A coalition government ( known in the United States as a fusion administration ) is a cabinet of a parliamentary government in which several political parties cooperate.

It usually does not appear in countries in which the cabinet is chosen by the executive rather than by a lower house, such as in the United States ( however, coalition cabinets are common in Brazil ).

The United Kingdom also operates a formal coalition cabinet between the Conservative and the Liberal Democrat parties, but this is unusual because the UK normally has a majority government.

The current Finnish cabinet is an even wider rainbow coalition of a total of six parties.

These include the largest, the Swiss People's Party ( SVP ), the Christian Democratic People's Party ( CVP ), represented in the Federal Council or cabinet by Doris Leuthard ( in 2011 ), and the Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland ( BDP ), which is a spliter of the SVP created after a failed attempt to expel Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf from the SVP.

For example, a payroll file might contain information concerning all the employees in a company and their payroll details ; each record in the payroll file concerns just one employee, and all the records have the common trait of being related to payroll — this is very similar to placing all payroll information into a specific filing cabinet in an office that does not have a computer.

Currently, political power is shared by a Somali president and an Afar prime minister, with an Afar career diplomat as Foreign Minister and other cabinet posts roughly divided.

Currently, political power is shared by a Somali president and an Afar prime minister, with cabinet posts roughly divided.

In a parliamentary system, a cabinet minister with the title of prime minister is head of government, while the head of state is a largely ceremonial monarch or president.

This much had already been confirmed by former cabinet secretary Lord Hunt, who concluded in a secret inquiry conducted in 1996 that " there is absolutely no doubt at all that a few, a very few, malcontents in MI5 ... a lot of them like Peter Wright who were rightwing, malicious and had serious personal grudges – gave vent to these and spread damaging malicious stories about that Labour government.

The foreign policy is led by the president, " in co-operation " with the cabinet, and the same applies to matters concerning national security.

Responsibility for forming the cabinet out of several political parties and negotiating its platform is granted to the leader of the party gaining largest support in the elections for the parliament.

In the official usage, the " cabinet " ( valtioneuvosto ) are the ministers including the prime minister and the Chancellor of Justice, while the " government " ( hallitus ) is the cabinet presided by the president.

The prime minister chooses the rest of the cabinet, which is formally appointed by the president.