Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 18 February 1954.
Mr Donald Chapman
, Birmingham, Northfield
12:00,
18 February 1954
Since the Sea Transport Order was introduced primarily because of the abuse and because of the notoriety of this traffic across the Irish Sea, do not those figures indicate that the Order is almost a dead letter already, when only nine casualties are reported out of 17,000 horses carried in this nefarious traffic? What is the Minister going to do in order to get a proper check on the strips?
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.
