Oral Answers to Questions — Public Health – in the House of Commons at on 25 March 1943.
Mr Ian Hannah
, Wolverhampton Bilston
asked the Minister of Health whether, in adopting the medical recommendations of the Beveridge Report, he will safeguard the position of doctors who have planned to make provision for their retirement by selling their practices with or without houses and surgeries?
Mr Ernest Brown
, Leith
My hon. Friend may be sure that this factor will be fully appreciated in considering the new arrangements.
Mr Ian Hannah
, Wolverhampton Bilston
Is not that answer most satisfactory?
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.
