Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 30 November 2009.
David Crausby
Chair, North West Regional Select Committee
2:30,
30 November 2009
May I tell my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State that the Sure Start children's centres he has visited in my Constituency are extremely successful? Can he absolutely assure me that they will be allowed to thrive under the next Labour Government?
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
In a general election, each Constituency chooses an MP to represent them. MPs have a responsibility to represnt the views of the Constituency in the House of Commons. There are 650 Constituencies, and thus 650 MPs. A citizen of a Constituency is known as a Constituent
