§ Sir H. Morris-Jonesasked the Secretary of State for War what are the respective duties of the three Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State of his Department?
§ Mr. EdenThe Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State and the Financial Secretary are charged under Order-in-Council with such duties as may be assigned to them by the Secretary of State. Lord Croft is specially concerned with Army welfare and the administration of War Department lands, the hon. Member for Altrincham (Sir E. Grigg) with questions relating to home defence, and the hon. Member for South-West Hull (Mr. Law) with Army contracts and the Parliamentary aspects of financial and labour policy. The Under-Secretaries deal also with Parliamentary correspondence, which is very large, and relieve me of much detailed political business arising from the rapid expansion of the Army and its innumerable contacts with national life. I have also entrusted all three Under-Secretaries with special investigations into questions of policy.