Part of Oral Answers to Questions — China. – in the House of Commons at on 6 July 1925.
Mr Samuel Viant
, Willesden West
asked the Secretary of State for Air what was the cost of the British airships R.39 and the R.80: by whom were these airships constructed; and what are the total hours of flight of each vessel?
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.
