Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Air Force. – in the House of Commons at on 1 October 1941.
Mr Oliver Simmonds
, Birmingham Duddeston
asked the Secretary of State for Air the number of occasions on which Rome has been bombed by the Royal Air Force?
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.
