Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. – in the House of Commons at on 14 September 1931.
Mr. MACLEAN:
44.asked the Prime Minister whether the Royal Commission on Unemployment has yet presented its final report?
Mr Ramsay Macdonald
, Seaham
No, Sir.
Mr. MACLEAN:
Can the Prime Minister give the House any information as to when the Commission is likely to present its final report?
Mr Ramsay Macdonald
, Seaham
Some time ago I told the House that I had asked that no time should be wasted, and there the matter stands at the moment.
Mr David Kirkwood
, Dumbarton District of Burghs
Is it not the case that when the right hon. Member for Derby (Mr. J. H. Thomas) was removed from his office of Lord Privy Seal the Prime Minister, instead of appointing a new Minister for unemployment, set up a committee with Lord Weir as the chairman to find work for the unemployed? I want to know if that committee, has found work for the unemployed?
Lieut-General Edward Fitzroy
, Daventry
That has nothing to do with the question on the Paper.
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.
