Which option clearly shows the difference between policy making and policy implementation?

Correct answer: The Cabinet frames the decision and the administration implements it

Direct answer: A is correct. Policy making means deciding what should be done, why it should be done and what broad goals should be followed. In a parliamentary system, the political executive, including the Cabinet, takes policy decisions and accepts political responsibility for them. Policy implementation is the next stage: public officials and administrative departments translate the decision into rules, programmes, budgets, services and actual work. For example, deciding to expand a public health programme is policy making; arranging staff, funds, supplies and delivery is implementation. B is nonsensical because weather cannot implement a policy and citizens do not normally enact every law directly. C assigns unrelated functions to courts and the opposition. D also describes unrelated activities. Memory cue: making is choosing the direction; implementation is carrying that direction into practice.