Part of Oral Answers to Questions — India. – in the House of Commons at on 18 March 1929.
Mr Henry Snell
, Woolwich East
asked the Under-Secretary of State for India the terms and conditions on which the Government of India propose to give a subsidy to companies promoted to develop civil aviation in India?
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.