Oral Answers to Questions — Police. – in the House of Commons at on 4 March 1929.
Mr Harry Day
, Southwark Central
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that women police attached to some of the provincial police forces have been supplied with motor cycles; and whether any of the women police in the Metropolitan Police area are being supplied with them?
Mr William Joynson-Hicks
, Twickenham
I understand that some county police women use motor cycles for purposes of their duty. Motor cycles are not supplied to women in the Metropolitan District.
Mr Harry Day
, Southwark Central
Is the right hon. Gentleman watching the experiment of the county police authorities to see whether it would not be beneficial in London?
Mr William Joynson-Hicks
, Twickenham
An up-to-date Office like the Home Office watches all these things.
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.
