Cabinet Committees and GoMs

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📖 Quick summary

Cabinet Committees are extra-constitutional, created under the Rules of Business (Article 77(3)) to reduce the full Cabinet's workload — a Committee's decision counts as a Cabinet decision unless referred back. Key standing committees include the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) and the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC). Groups of Ministers (GoMs) are ad hoc and issue-specific, dissolved once their task is done.

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💡 Key Facts

Extra-constitutional — rooted in the Rules of Business under Article 77(3).
CCS (chaired by the PM) is the most powerful standing committee; ACC decides senior appointments.
GoMs are ad hoc; an Empowered GoM can decide without full Cabinet approval.

🔖 60-Second Revision

Cabinet Committees = extra-constitutional, PM-created, reduce Cabinet's workload.
GoM = ad hoc, issue-specific; EGoM = can take binding decisions.