Oral Answers to Questions — Aircraft Production – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 14 June 1944.
Sir Lindsay Everard
, Melton
12:00,
14 June 1944
asked the Minister of Aircraft Production why an aircraft contractor in the Manchester area employing upwards of 600 persons has been notified that his contract for repairs is terminated, whereas the Aviation Repairs Organisation at Oxford, who have issued this order in a letter dated 8th May, were trying to find capacity for repairing aircraft of a similar type.
Sir Stafford Cripps
, Bristol East
The contract was terminated as a result of a decrease in the repair requirements of the particular aircraft concerned. As regards the second part of the Question, the Repairs Organisation at Oxford have not been seeking capacity for repairing aircraft of a similar type. The incident to which the hon. Member probably refers was concerned with the rearrangement of repair work on a quite different type of aircraft, whereby work formerly done by sub-contract for a main contractor was to be done by direct contract instead.
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.
