Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 June 1964.
Mr Henry Brooke
, Hampstead
12:00,
4 June 1964
The issue of vouchers is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour and not for myself. My hon. Friend has done right in drawing attention to the fact that there are now 300,000 people who have made application for vouchers to come to this country and that vouchers have not been issued to them. Had the Act not been passed I cannot see anything that could have stood in the way of all of them coming here.
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.
