Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 28 January 1947.
Mr Niall Macpherson
, Dumfriesshire
12:00,
28 January 1947
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what additional labour he intends to make available to farmers in Scotland for harvesting and potato-lifting in 1947.
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.
