Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 11 March 1929.
Mr Austen Chamberlain
, Birmingham West
I informed the right hon. and gallant Gentleman, in reply to his question of the 13th of February, that military jurisdiction had been superseded by civil jurisdiction everywhere in Rumania except provisionally in the frontier zones—I think it is a zone of 10 kilometres. All trials pending before the military courts will now presumably be handed over to the civil tribunals, and as the Rumanian Government make no distinction between Jewish and other Rumanian subjects, I see no reason to question His Majesty's Minister further on the point.
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.
