 Few Privy Counsellors are required to attend regularly . The settled practice is that day @-@ to @-@ day meetings of the Council are attended by four Privy Counsellors , usually the relevant Minister to the matters pertaining . The Cabinet Minister holding the office of Lord President of the Council , currently the Rt Hon David <unk> MP , invariably presides . Under Britain 's modern conventions of parliamentary government and constitutional monarchy , every order made in Council is drafted by a Government Department and has already been approved by the Minister responsible — thus actions taken by the Queen @-@ in @-@ Council are formalities required for validation of each measure . 
