Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. – in the House of Commons at on 2 May 1923.
Mr. GRAHAM WHITE:
43.asked the Minister of Labour if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some employers of juveniles make a practice of dismissing them when they reach the age of 16 and of replacing them by boys or girls who have just left school; and, if so, what steps does he propose to take to discourage this practice?
Mr Anderson Barlow
, Salford South
I have no evidence that the practice referred to is at all general, and for obvious reasons it would be difficult to deal with it by means of official action. The juvenile employment committees, however, which exist in most of the larger towns, are well qualified to take such action as is likely to be useful by way of persuasion and advice.
Ministers make up the Government and almost all are members of the House of Lords or the House of Commons. There are three main types of Minister. Departmental Ministers are in charge of Government Departments. The Government is divided into different Departments which have responsibilities for different areas. For example the Treasury is in charge of Government spending. Departmental Ministers in the Cabinet are generally called 'Secretary of State' but some have special titles such as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Ministers of State and Junior Ministers assist the ministers in charge of the department. They normally have responsibility for a particular area within the department and are sometimes given a title that reflects this - for example Minister of Transport.
