Oral Answers to Questions — Food Supplies. – in the House of Commons at on 21 February 1940.
Mr Wilfrid Roberts
, Cumberland Northern
asked the Minister of Food why local food committees are being instructed to refuse allotment-holders and garden-owners licences to sell retail surplus fruit and vegetables, seeing that such refusal is likely to prevent an increase in the production of fruit and vegetables in gardens and on allotments?
Mr William Morrison
, Cirencester and Tewkesbury
Food Control Committees have not been instructed to refuse licences to the persons mentioned in the Question. On the contrary their attention has been particularly drawn to the Government's campaign for the increased production of fruit and vegetables and to the importance of avoiding action which would impede it.
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.
