Part of Oral Answers to Questions — India. – in the House of Commons at on 4 March 1929.
Mr William Kelly
, Rochdale
asked the Under-Secretary of State for India if he has received a Report from India as to the present situation in the strike at the Sewree depot of the Burma Standard Oil Companies?
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.