Part of Oral Answers to Questions — British Army – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 25 March 1947.
Mr Robert Young
, Newton
12:00,
25 March 1947
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware of the dissatisfaction among Service families in B.A.O.R. at the prices charged by N.A.A.F.I. families' shops; if he will cause an investigation to be made so that an explanation will be given why Allenbury's Food should cost 6s. 3d. and Bisto 5s. against, approximately, 4s. 6d. and 2s., respectively, in this country; and why other articles of diet, etc., cost more than 50 per cent. over home prices.
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.