But, as a peer Lord Irvine is answerable to the Lords and not the Commons.
The reforms, she said, "will leave us with a police force that is answerable to the public and transformed in its ability to fight crime".
The VLA is an agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), and reports to the Environment Secretary, Margaret Beckett, who is answerable to Parliament for it.
As well as the timing and wording of the ballot, the two sides have disagreed on whether the voting age should be lowered for the referendum (Mr Salmond says that it should) and whether it should be overseen by the Electoral Commission, which Nationalists testily point out is answerable to the Westminster Parliament.
It sends its reports to Parliament but is not answerable to it.
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The disadvantage is that it is answerable neither to shareholders nor, directly, to the Treasury.
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At present he is answerable solely to disgruntled Czech voters.
The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, to which it is now answerable, is, however, no respecter of history.
The prime minister was also correct to observe that it is to Parliament and the people that he is ultimately answerable for his political judgments.
Yet while companies and large organizations are bound by legislation and answerable to the public when it comes to accessing sensitive data, there is one digital denizen who does so at will: the cyber criminal.
Instead he is arguing that they should take responsibility for setting up a new parades type commission, answerable to Stormont not the Northern Ireland Office.
There is strong support in Westminster for many of the lord chancellor's duties to be transferred to an elected minister answerable to MPs.
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