Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Civil Defence. – in the House of Commons at on 16 October 1941.
Mr Herbert Morrison
, Hackney South
I have been asked to reply. The answer to the first part of the Question is "Yes." As regards the second part, I would refer to the reply given to a Question by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for War on 29th July.
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.
