Part of Oral Answers to Questions — British Army. – in the House of Commons at on 30 January 1940.
Mr Reginald Sorensen
, Leyton West
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he will consider an automatic increase in the basic scale of allowances to correspond with every five-point increase in the cost of living?
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.
