Individual Ministerial Responsibility
The convention that ministers are personally accountable to Parliament for their own conduct and the work of their department, and should resign if serious failures occur.
Real World
Amber Rudd resigned as Home Secretary in 2018 after inadvertently misleading Parliament about whether her department had targets for removing illegal immigrants during the Windrush scandal, showing IMR still has force.
Exam Focus
Distinguish between responsibility for personal conduct and departmental failure — examiners expect you to explain which type of IMR applies in each case.
How well did you know this?