Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Police – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 1 May 1947.
Brigadier Sir Harry Mackeson
, Hythe
12:00,
1 May 1947
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give an estimate of the establishment of the police forces of Great Britain in 1938 and 1946, and what increase or decrease is anticipated by 1st January, 1949.
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.
