Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 31 Mawrth 1947.
Mr. Baldwin:
asked the Minister of Agriculture, whether, in order to encourage egg production he will grant a ration of one cwt. of poultry food for every case of 360 eggs delivered to a registered packing station.
Mr Thomas Williams
, Don Valley
No, Sir. the idea of basing rations on eggs sent to packing stations has been fully explored and rejected as impracticable, largely because of the difficulty of dealing with eggs for hatching and rations for breeding stock.
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.
