Part of Oral Answers to Questions — British Army – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 11 March 1947.
Mr Sidney Shephard
, Newark
12:00,
11 March 1947
asked the Secretary of State for War when he pro- poses to release the Territorial Drill Hall, Derby Road, Nottingham, at present occupied by the Regular Army, and hand it back to the T.A. and A.F. Associations.
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.