Part of Oral Answers to Questions — British Army. – in the House of Commons at on 30 January 1940.
Mr Hastings Lees-Smith
, Keighley
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he can state what policy he proposes to follow in the matter of publishing casualty lists?
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.
