Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce. – in the House of Commons at on 18 March 1929.
Sir Robert Thomas
, Anglesey
asked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether he will consider extending the functions of the Empire Marketing Board so as to enable it, in addition to its work of popularising Empire products in this country, to advertise British goods in the Dominions and Colonies?
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.
