Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce. – in the House of Commons at on 6 March 1929.
Sir Nicholas Grattan-Doyle
, Newcastle upon Tyne North
asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether any payment is made by the Empire Marketing Board to the owners of sites on which the Board's posters are displayed?
Lieut-Colonel Leo Amery
, Birmingham Sparkbrook
Payments from the Empire Marketing Fund are made in a limited number of these cases.
Mr Harry Day
, Southwark Central
Can the right hon. Gentleman say how many boards there are?
Lieut-Colonel Leo Amery
, Birmingham Sparkbrook
Not without notice.
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.
