NCTJ Public Affairs - Key Words fully solved 2024/2025

NCTJ Public Affairs - Key WordsAgenda - correct answer Outline of items to be considered in a meeting of a subcommittee, committee, full council, cabinet (executive), or other body Assembly Member (AM) - correct answer Elected representative in the National Assembly for Wales. There are 60 AMs - forty representing constituencies and four for each of five larger regions. Backbencher - correct answer Term referring to the majority of MPs in the House of Commons, who represent constituencies, but have no additional job title or responsibilities in government or Opposition, and therefore sit on 'back benches' (seats behind the front row on either side of the House). Bank of England - correct answer Britain's central bank, based in the City of London. It has its own governor and was given independance from givernment by the then Chancellor Gordon Brown in 1997. Basic Allowance - correct answer Standard fee (usually modest) paid to councillors out of local authorities' revenue budgets. It can vary from area to area Billing Authority - correct answer Local authority that sends out Council Tax bills to households, collects money, and keeps a register of who has paid. This is the responsibility of district councils or borough councils and unitary authorities. Borough council - correct answer Type of local authority with the same powers as a district council, but which has right to call itself a 'borough' because of its historical connection to the Crown Boundary Commissions - correct answer Quangos responsible for periodically reviewing the sizes and boundaries of English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish parliamentary constituencies to ensure they cover approximately the same number of voters. In developed nations, Commissions also review boundaries for assembly constituencies. The next boundary reviews are due by 2018.