Oral Answers to Questions — Food Supplies – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 10 November 1947.
Sir Herbert Butcher
, Holland with Boston
12:00,
10 November 1947
asked the Minister of Food whether the patients in hospitals and nursing homes will suffer the recently announced cut in civilian rations.
Mr Evelyn Strachey
, Dundee
Residents in hospitals and nursing homes are entitled to the same rations as the domestic consumer. Additional foods considered necessary on medical grounds may be obtained in the same way as for people suffering from similar compaints at home. Special cuts of 15 per cent. or 17½ per cent. in the allowances of various rationed and controlled foods to certain catering establishments made because of the crisis were not applied to residents in catering establishments or anyone in institutions.
Sir Herbert Butcher
, Holland with Boston
While bearing in mind the fact that persons in these institutions have no access to public canteens or other methods of feeding out, is the Minister really satisfied that the ration these people will receive will be adequate to restore them to good health?
Mr Evelyn Strachey
, Dundee
That was why we did not apply the recent cut made to catering establishments to these places.
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.
