Part of Oral Answers to Questions — British Army – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 28 Hydref 1947.
Lieut.-Colonel Geoffrey Clifton-Brown:
Will the Minister for War tell us from what map he got the figures of land now under cultivation. The one I have seen was one which was made up before the war, but since then the war agricultural committee have brought into use a great deal of land used for agriculture.
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.
