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
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many applications for allowances under the Tuberculosis Allowances Scheme have been granted in Edinburgh since its inception; and how many have been refused because of means, and because of the chronic nature of the disease.
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.