Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce. – in the House of Commons at on 8 March 1939.
Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd
, Mid Bedfordshire
No separate figures for labourers are available but the total number of male migrants entering insured employment in Great Britain was 16,115 in 1938 and 935 in January, 1939. As regards the last part of the question I would refer my hon. Friend to the reply given by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Home Affairs on 2nd February last to the hon. and gallant Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Colonel Wedgwood) and the hon. Member for Stockport (Sir A. Gridley).
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.
