Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Air Force. – in the House of Commons at on 19 November 1941.
Mr Oliver Simmonds
, Birmingham Duddeston
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether he has considered the petition sent to him by the committee for the abolition of night-bombing; and what reply has been sent or what action taken?
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.
