Oral Answers to Questions — India. – in the House of Commons at on 6 February 1929.
Mr Leslie Hore-Belisha
, Plymouth, Devonport
asked the Secretary of State for War whether, seeing that the initial capital of the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes consisted of the balance of the assets of the Navy and Army Canteens Board, he will state what sum was paid for the assets of the Navy and Army Canteens Board, and by whom it was paid?
Mr Worthington Evans
, Colchester
As stated in the Preamble to the War Service Canteens (Disposal of Surplus) Act, 1922, the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes took over the outstanding assets and liabilities of the Navy and Army Canteens Board. No payment was made in this connection, but the disposal of the available surplus assets is dealt with in the Schedule to that Act.
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.
