30 Edexcel UK government essay plans

Essay plans which cover a multitude of areas of the spec which can be applied to a variety of questions. These plans helped me achieve an A* throughout the year and can help you by providing you with essay questions, points and examples.

This resource contains 30 essays including:

• To what extent should the UK adopt a codified constitution
• Using the source, evaluate the view that the UK’s constitution requires major change
• Using the source, evaluate the view that Constitutional reforms in the UK since 1997 have been weak, incomplete and require further change.
• Evaluate the view that the need for further English devolution is now overdue
• Using the source, evaluate the view that devolution is in danger of undermining the unity of the UK
• How effectively does Parliament perform its various function?
• Evaluate the view that the HoC is in much more need of reform than the HoLs
• evaluate the view that parliament is effective in carrying out its work of scrutinising the Government.
• Evaluate the extent to which the UK Parliament’s control over the government
• Evaluate the view that executive dominance ensures parliament has little meaningful control over the legislative process
• Evaluate the view that although the house of lords has less power than the house of commons, in practice it exerts more influence on government decisions
• Evaluate the effectiveness of backbench MPs
• evaluate the view that the principal role of backbench MPs is now to hold the government to account
• Evaluate the view that back benchers have little impact on parliament
• Effectiveness of select committees
• Evaluate the view that select committees are an effective means of scrutiny in parliament
• Evaluate the extent to which the work of select committees is more effective than other methods of parliamentary procedure in holding the executive to account
• Evaluate the extent to which general elections in the UK are lost by the government rather than won by the opposition
• Evaluate the view that the opposition is effective in the House of Commons
• evaluate the view that Prime Ministers have too much power/ evaluate that that prime minister dominates the political system
• To what extent is the prime minister becoming more presidential?
• Evaluate the extent to which the prime minister can control the cabinet?
• Evaluate the extent to which Prime Ministers are able to control the political agenda
• evaluate the factors that influence the relationship between the cabinet and the PM?
• evaluate the view that the conventions of ministerial responsibility is no longer important
• Evaluate the extent to which the UK Parliaments control over the government has increased in recent years?
• To what extent are judges both independent and neutral
• To what extent can the SC retain human rights
• evaluate the view that the SC has too much influence over th executive
• Evaluate how far Parliament retains sole sovereignty within the political system