Part of Orders of the Day — Local Government (Scotland) Bill. – in the House of Commons at on 26 April 1929.
Mr Joseph Westwood
, Peebles and Southern
I am glad that I have said what I have said. We now have an admission that the responsibility is not the responsibility of The other House but is the result of Intervention by the Secretary of State for Scotland, who has deliberately used his influence for the purpose of getting introduced into The other House an extension of the Title of the Bill, to amend another Bill. We protest against that.
House of Lords
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.
An intervention is when the MP making a speech is interrupted by another MP and asked to 'give way' to allow the other MP to intervene on the speech to ask a question or comment on what has just been said.
