Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Air Force. – in the House of Commons at on 21 February 1940.
Mr Walter Higgs
, Birmingham West
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he is aware that there is great concern at the proposal to erect an aeroplane factory on some of Warwickshire's best agricultural land where there is no surplus labour and no accommodation for the same; and will he consider erecting it in an industrial area more suitable for the purpose?
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.
