Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Air Force. – in the House of Commons at on 24 January 1940.
Mr John Morgan
, Doncaster
asked the Secretary of State for Air what complaints he has received about losses of homing pigeons on service, due to their being shot down other than by enemy action and, in particular, from the Bircham Newton aerodrome authorities?
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.
