Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Civil Aviation. – in the House of Commons at on 21 June 1939.
Sir Robert Perkins
, Stroud
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he proposes to take any action as a result of the report of the Committee on the Control of Flying?
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.