Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. – in the House of Commons at on 14 June 1933.
Mr. PRICE:
34.asked the Minister of Labour whether, in considering an application for transitional payment, a public assistance committee is acting in conformity with the regulations in ignoring the applicant's responsibility to maintain his wife under a separation order; and whether under the means test it is permissible for the committee to take into account the means of the household where the separated wife happens to be living?
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.
