Part of Oral Answers to Questions — British Army. – in the House of Commons at on 8 April 1941.
Major-General Sir Alfred Knox
, Wycombe
asked the Secretary of State for War the scale of clothing issued to German prisoners of war in Britain and how this scale compares with the issues by the German Government to British prisoners of war in Germany?
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.
