Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. – in the House of Commons at on 26 November 1934.
Miss WARD:
27.asked the Minister of Health whether, in confirming the expenditure of money on relief work by local authorities, any instructions are issued as to employing, where practicable, those men who have been out of employment for the longest period?
Mr Geoffrey Shakespeare
, Norwich
Loans are not now sanctioned for relief works as such, but a large number of loans are being sanctioned for public works. Conditions are not imposed in these sanctions regarding the labour to be employed. Most public works are carried out by contract. Employers are urged by my right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour to recruit labour through the Employment Exchanges.
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.
