Oral Answers to Questions — Transport – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 31 October 1949.
Mr Thomas Skeffington-Lodge
, Bedford
12:00,
31 October 1949
asked the Minister of Transport the main provisions of the new code of the road recently signed by this country at Geneva; and to what extent he expects that they will affect car drivers, motor manufacturers, cyclists, motor cyclists, road and bridge builders, manufacturers of road signs and pedestrians in Britain.
Mr Alfred Barnes
, East Ham South
I would refer my hon. Friend to the reply which I gave on 24th October to my hon. Friend the Member for West Leicester (Mr. Janner), of which I am sending him a copy. If my hon. Friend has any particular question in mind, perhaps he will communicate with me.
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.
