Oral Answers to Questions — India. – in the House of Commons at on 11 March 1935.
Sir Reginald Craddock
, Combined English Universities
asked the Secretary of State for India which Provincial Governments, if any, have presented their Budgets for 1935–36, and which of them show deficits and for what amounts in each case?
Mr R.A. Butler
, Saffron Walden
My right hon. Friend has telegraphed to India for full information and will communicate the particulars asked for by my hon. Friend as soon as the material arrives.
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.