Part of Oral Answers to Questions — British Army. – in the House of Commons at on 30 January 1940.
Mr Arthur Woodburn
, Clackmannan and Eastern
asked the Secretary of State for War whether the Government is now prepared to make any allowance to widows whose sons are serving in the Forces on other conditions that the imposition of a means test?
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.
