Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Air Force. – in the House of Commons at on 21 June 1939.
Sir Robert Perkins
, Stroud
asked the Secretary of State for Air how many squadrons of the Royal Air Force will take part in a demonstration at Le Touquet this summer; and for what reason?
Sir Kingsley Wood
, Woolwich West
No such arangements have been made.
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.