Part of Oral Answers to Questions — India – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 March 1947.
Sir Toby Low
, Blackpool North
12:00,
17 March 1947
asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he is now able to announce His Majesty's Government's proposals for the compensation and proportionate pension to be paid to Indian and British members of his Department's Services in India when those Services are brought to an end.
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.
