Part of Oral Answers to Questions — British Army. – in the House of Commons at on 30 January 1940.
Sir Joseph Leech
, Newcastle upon Tyne West
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will appoint to the army Service Corps or to the Royal Ordnance Corps, or to employment in unskilled work, or as learners, or clerical workers, in firms, other than engineering firms, supplying the Government, men aged between 25 and 30 years who have applied for commissions in the fighting forces and for whom training or commissions cannot yet be provided?
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.
