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
Is it not a fact that the Secretary of State gave a pledge, in conversation with representatives of the Secretary of State's Services, that he would see that compensation was paid, and is it not further a fact that, on 26th July last year, an Order was published by G.H.O. India saying that compensation would be given to those officers to whom other employment was not offered?
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.
