Oral Answers to Questions — India – in the House of Commons at on 9 December 1929.
Mr David Pole
, Derbyshire Southern
asked the Secretary of State for India whether, in regard to the decision of the Viceroy to make public the Report of the Indian Central Committee as soon as possible, he is now in a position to inform the House as to the approximate date of publication?
Captain William Benn
, Aberdeen North
Probably about the end of the year.
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.
