Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 27 March 1935.
Mr Oliver Simmonds
, Birmingham Duddeston
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the transport of the Foreign Secretary and the Lord Privy Seal to Berlin was put out to tender to more than one aircraft operating company; and whether the lowest tender was accepted?
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.
