Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 9 December 1920.
Mr Augustine Hailwood
, Manchester Ardwick
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the average annual number of aliens who were naturalised as British subjects prior to the War; the numbers who have been dealt with in each of the two years since the Armistice; and the number of aliens whose applications are awaiting decisions?
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.