Part of Oral Answers to Questions — British Army. – in the House of Commons at on 12 December 1939.
Mr Lewis Silkin
, Camberwell Peckham
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that in cases where a soldier is awarded field punishment he forfeits not only his own pay but his allotment to his wife, often imposing serious hardship on the wife and family; and whether he will give consideration to any necessary alteration of the army Regulations so as to prevent the suffering of innocent persons?
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.
