Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. – in the House of Commons at on 8 July 1925.
Mr George Garro-Jones
, Hackney South
asked the Minister of Labour whether he can arrange for Members to obtain from the Vote Office copies of the Report issued last month by his Department as a result of the investigation made in November into the personal circumstances and industrial history of 10,903 claimants to unemployed benefit?
Mr Arthur Steel-Maitland
, Birmingham Erdington
It is not proposed to make a general distribution of the Report through the Vote Office, but copies will be sent to hon. Members on application to the Controller, His Majesty's Stationery Office.
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.
