– in the House of Commons at on 25 March 1943.
Mr Edgar Granville
, Eye
asked the Minister of Health whether individual application for industrial billeting should now be made on the typewritten form provided by his department through the Supply Ministries concerned or to the local billeting officer?
Mr Ernest Brown
, Leith
The normal procedure for industrial billeting is for form E.D.249 to be filled up by local officers of the Ministry of Labour and National Service, or authorised officers of the firms concerned, and passed to the local authority, who then proceed to billet.
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.
