Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Air Force. – in the House of Commons at on 30 July 1934.
Sir Gifford Fox
, Henley
asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air how many of the military aerodromes in this country obtain their electricity supplies from the mains or from an independent generating unit, respectively?
Sir Philip Sassoon
, Hythe
The numbers are now 37 and 18, respectively.
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.