Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Aviation. – in the House of Commons at on 27 March 1935.
Mr Oliver Simmonds
, Birmingham Duddeston
asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air whether he has decided to relax the requirement for blind flying experience for pilots with B licences not normally engaged in public transport services?
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.