Oral Answers to Questions — India. – in the House of Commons at on 5 October 1931.
Mr David Pole
, Derbyshire Southern
asked the Secretary of State for India if he will give information showing how many of the vacancies at Sandhurst filled by competition have, since the inception of the scheme of Indianisation of the Indian Army, been filled by candidates belonging to the enlisted classes?
Mr Samuel Hoare
, Chelsea
The only details available at the moment are contained in a reply given to my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Newbury (Brigadier-General Brown) on the 4th May last, of which I am sending the hon. and gallant Member a copy. I will see whether there is any later information.
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.
