Part of Oral Answers to Questions — British Army – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 8 July 1947.
Mr Luke Teeling
, Brighton
12:00,
8 July 1947
asked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that the Brighton Corporation have entered into an agreement to purchase the Stanmer Park Estate from the trustees of the Chichester Estates; that this purchase should be completed by a certain date; when his Department will hand back the property; and, if they wish to retain part of it, when he will see a deputation, already chosen, from the corporation to discuss the derequisitioning in all its aspects.
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.