Home Department written question – answered at on 14 March 2013.
Keith Vaz
Chair, Home Affairs Committee, Chair, Home Affairs Committee
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations she has made to other Ministers in her Department on Constituency issues; on what date such representations were made; and to which Minister each such representation was made.
Theresa May
The Secretary of State for the Home Department
I make representations on behalf of my constituents on a wide range of issues. It is not Home Office practice to disclose the details of MPs’ Constituency correspondence to a third party.
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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.
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.
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
