Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 3 November 2009.
Michael Moore
Shadow Secretary of State for International Development
2:30,
3 November 2009
Will the Minister assure us that he will devote enough management time and resources to this stage of reforms, so that we can avoid the utter chaos experienced by many of my constituents with more recent reforms? As a result of the latter, for many people it is taking months to get thousands of pounds of tax that is their due repaid.
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.
