Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Police. – in the House of Commons at on 26 July 1934.
Major Thomas Jesson
, Rochdale
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will furnish the House with a return of the total strength of the Liverpool city police force and with a return of the number of dismissals, rank reductions, and voluntary resignations in that force during the last two years?
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.
