Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland. – in the House of Commons at on 20 March 1935.
Mr John Burnett
, Aberdeen North
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether it is the intention of the Department of Health for Scotland, under Public Assistance Circular No. 40, that a child under order of court should be committed to the care not of a public assistance committee but of an education authority; and will he take into consideration the fact that public assistance committees have arrangements under which children can be cared for and boarded out, whereas education committees have as a rule no other course open to them than to send children so committed to their care to an approved school?
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.