Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ( " Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster " ) is a British government official. The only official duty of the Registrar is the appointment of justices of the peace, so it is practically a freely available minister without portfolio.
The Office is often given to young members of the Cabinet, who are entrusted with responsibilities in a specific area of policy for which there is no institutionalized ministerial office. Often it is also veteran politicians transmitted as a political career be adopted sinecure, as a kind of homey ending their political career. Sometimes the authorities in the past but also served as a political " siding" for sizes toppled the political stage. This was the case, who, by the Office of Naval Minister was forced to resign as one of the core departments of the British government in 1915 during the First World War, after the failure of those initiated by him Gallipoli expedition, for which he was made responsible by the public when Winston Churchill, then on the - to be deported post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - his influence meaningless to the war.
In the recent past, the incumbent shaft was connected to the service as a Minister for the Cabinet Office, for example, in the case of Alan Milburn, who had received the title of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 2004 and simultaneously joined the Cabinet again. This enabled him to have a seat in the cabinet without having to take a time-consuming government posts, so that he could devote to his duties as a campaign manager at the general election in 2005 with full government area.