Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Housing. – in the House of Commons at on 8 February 1940.
Major-General Sir Alfred Knox
, Wycombe
asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that under the ban placed in India on emigration to Ceylon, a Tamil worker in a Ceylon tea garden who visits India for a week to see friends or sick relations is prohibited from returning to Ceylon; and whether he will make representations to procure the repeal of this regulation?
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.
