Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Unemployment. – in the House of Commons at on 8 March 1939.
Mr George Muff
, Kingston upon Hull East
asked the Minister of Labour the number of unemployed persons taken over by the Unemployment Assistance Board from the Kingston-upon-Hull Public Assistance Committee on 1st April, 1937; the number of cases then in receipt of public assistance that were investigated and rejected by the Board; the number of Hull unemployed receiving unemployment assistance on 1st April, 1938, and on 1st October, 1938, or nearest convenient dates; and the number of them receiving help from public assistance committee at the same dates?
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.
