Abstract
Abstract The titles enjoyed by Ministers in the British government must baffle foreigners (and a few Britons). Some titles are very old and give no clue to the holders’ present ministerial responsibilities, such as the Lord Privy Seal or the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The ministerial head of a department of state may be called a Secretary of State or (rarely, nowadays) a Minister; his deputy may occasionally have a quaint title, such as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, or Paymaster General, or he may be styled Minister of State (sometimes with an informal title as well, like Minister for Local Government); the most junior Minister in a department may be called the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, or simply the Parliamentary Secretary. And most ministerial styles are more of a mouthful today than they were in former times-for instance, the Minister of Defence as was is now the Secretary of State for Defence; the Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Health, is now the Parliamentary Under-Secretary ofState, Department of Health; and so on. Now none of this matters very much, but ministerial nomenclature requires systematic explanation if it is to be understood at all clearly.
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