Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce. – in the House of Commons at on 4 March 1935.
Lieut-Colonel Sir Assheton Pownall
, Lewisham East
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether and, if so, upon what occasions the Metropolitan special constabulary will be asked to participate in official ceremonies in connection with the Jubilee celebrations?
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.
