Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 June 1947.
Mr Eustace Willis
, Edinburgh North
12:00,
17 June 1947
In view of the chronic nature of the disease of applicants for allowances under this scheme, do not these figures reveal a very cruel anomaly, and will the Secretary of State look into this matter with a view to removing that anomaly?
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.
