Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Coal Mining Industry. – in the House of Commons at on 7 December 1926.
Mr Neil Maclean
, Glasgow Govan
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether any arrangement, agreement, or understanding has been arrived at between the purchaser of Conon Lodge and the Board of Agriculture for Scotland, by which the former will acquire the parks and fields adjacent to the lodge so far as these are now in the occupation of local tenants; and, if so, whether these options were disclosed to other intending purchasers of the lodge?
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.
