Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Air Force – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 2 July 1947.
Mr George Wallace
, Chislehurst
12:00,
2 July 1947
asked the Secretary of State for Air to what extent accounting branches of his Department are using modern methods of mechanized accounting.
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.