Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:36 pm on 20 September 2016.
Carwyn Jones
Labour
1:36,
20 September 2016
Well, absolutely. We need to make sure that those people who have skills that are needed by our economy and by our health service, that those skills are utilised. And, certainly, one of the issues that we will want to explore with the WLGA—and the Home Office, actually—is how we can identify those people in terms of the skills that they possess.
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.
