ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the problems faced by UK, India and Sri Lanka. Although India and Sri Lanka gained independence, government and administration of these two countries is still largely influenced by the Westminster model of government. The chapter discusses the Britain itself is running into problems of accountability and need for a comparative study arises from the fact that the UK, India and Sri Lanka have common parliamentary and constitutional structures. Some of the existing means of accountability have already failed to make both the ministers and civil servants accountable in these countries. Secrecy, corruption, lack of responsibility and responsiveness, and the Centralisation of the civil service are now becoming major issues of government and administration of these countries. The effect of the politicisation of the bureaucracy is a difficult one for the accountability of the government. The government headed by John Major wanted a core state with the traditional civil service confined largely to policy making.
